These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Esther 3
Tanakh 15 verses
- 1 After these things did Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.
- 2 And all the king’s servants, that were in the king’s gate, bowed down, and prostrated themselves before Haman; for the had so commanded concerning him. But bowed not down, nor prostrated himself before him.
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Then the king’s servants, that were in the king’s gate, said unto : ‘Why transgressest thou the king’s ?’
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Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily unto him, and he hearkened not unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s words would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew.
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And when Haman saw that bowed not down, nor prostrated himself before him, then was Haman full of wrath.
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But it seemed contemptible in his eyes to lay hands on alone; for they had made known to him the people of ; wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole of Ahasuerus, even the people of .
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- 7 In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of Ahasuerus, they cast pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.
- 8 And Haman said unto Ahasuerus: ‘There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of thy ; and their laws are diverse from those of every people; neither keep they the king’s laws; therefore it profiteth not the to suffer them.
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If it please the , let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those that have the charge of the king’s business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.’
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And the took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.
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And the said unto Haman: ‘The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee.’
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Then were the king’s scribes called in the first month, on the thirteenth day thereof, and there was written, according to all that Haman commanded, unto the king’s satraps, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the princes of every people; to every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the of Ahasuerus was it written, and it was sealed with the king’s ring.
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- 13 And letters were sent by posts into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
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The copy of the writing, to be given out for a decree in every province, was to be published unto all peoples, that they should be ready against that day.
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The posts went forth in haste by the king’s , and the decree was given out in Shushan the castle; and the and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Shushan was perplexed.
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