⁸ His brothers said to him, “Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?”^(A) And they hated him all the more^(B) because of his dream and what he had said.

² And all his acts of power and might, together with a full account of the greatness of Mordecai,^(A) whom the king had promoted,^(B) are they not written in the book of the annals^(C) of the kings of Media and Persia?