10 Then (A)the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha (B)the Agagite, (C)the enemy of the Jews. 11 The king said to Haman, “The silver is [a]yours, and the people also, to do with them as you please.”

12 (D)Then the king’s scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and it was written just as Haman commanded to (E)the king’s satraps, to the governors who were over each province and to the princes of each people, each province according to its script, each people according to its language, being written (F)in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king’s signet ring.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 3:11 Lit given to you

10 So the king took his signet ring(A) from his finger and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews. 11 “Keep the money,” the king said to Haman, “and do with the people as you please.”

12 Then on the thirteenth day of the first month the royal secretaries were summoned. They wrote out in the script of each province and in the language(B) of each people all Haman’s orders to the king’s satraps, the governors of the various provinces and the nobles of the various peoples. These were written in the name of King Xerxes himself and sealed(C) with his own ring.

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