¹⁵ and this house was finished on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.

²⁴ For Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast Pur—that is, “the lot”—to crush and to destroy them,^(A)