If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay 10,000 talents[a] of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king's business, that they may put it into the king's treasuries.”

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 3:9 A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms

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