⁷ In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, ^[a]Pur, that is the lot, was ^(A)cast before Haman from day to day and from month to month, ^[b]until the twelfth month, that is ^(B)the month Adar. ⁸ Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered and separated among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; ^(C)their laws are different from those of all other people, and they do not do the king’s laws, so it is not worth it for the king to let them remain. ⁹ If it seems good to the king, let it be written down that they should perish, and I will pay ^[c]10,000 talents of silver into the hands of those who do this work, to bring into the king’s treasuries.”