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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)

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  1. 3:9 Lit will weigh 10,000 silver talents on the hands of

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]

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  1. 3:13 LXX adds the text of Ahasuerus’s letter here.

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)

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