Esther 3:6-7

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6} And when he learned of Mordecai’s ethnic identity, Haman decided not to do away with^(a) Mordecai alone. He planned to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews,^(A) throughout Ahasuerus’s kingdom.^(B)

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7} In the first month, the month of Nisan,^(b) in King Ahasuerus’s twelfth year,^(c)^(C) Pur (that is, the lot) was cast before Haman for each day in each month, and it fell on the twelfth month,^(D) the month Adar.^(d)^(E)

Footnotes:

a. Esther 3:6: Lit to stretch out a hand against

b. Esther 3:7: March–April; called Abib in the pre-exilic period; Ex 13:4; Dt 16:1

c. Esther 3:7: 474 b.c.

d. Esther 3:7: February–March

Cross references:

A. Esther 3:6: Esther 6:10

B. Esther 3:6: Psalm 83:2-4

C. Esther 3:7: Esther 1:2; Esther 2:16

D. Esther 3:7: Esther 9:24-28

E. Esther 3:7: Ezra 6:15