⁹ If the king approves, let an order be drawn up authorising their destruction, and I will pay 345 tonnes of silver to^[a] the officials to deposit in the royal treasury.’^(A)

¹³ Letters were sent by couriers^(A) to each of the royal provinces telling the officials to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jewish people – young and old, women and children – and plunder their possessions on a single day,^(B) the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.^[a]

⁷ Mordecai told him everything that had happened as well as the exact amount of money Haman had promised to pay the royal treasury for the slaughter of the Jews.^(A)