Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai:

When Mordecai learned of the conspiracy, he informed Queen Esther, and Esther told the king in Mordecai’s behalf.

When Esther’s reply was conveyed to Mordecai,

So Hathach returned and related Mordecai’s instructions to Esther.

Then Esther replied to Hathach with instructions for Mordecai:

So Mordecai set out to do everything that Esther had instructed him.

But the thought of striking out against Mordecai alone was repugnant to him, for he had been informed of the identity of Mordecai’s people. So Haman sought to destroy all the Jews (that is, the people of Mordecai) who were in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus.

The king then removed his signet ring (the very one he had taken back from Haman) and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther designated Mordecai to be in charge of Haman’s estate.

Esther was still not divulging her lineage or her people, just as Mordecai had instructed her. Esther continued to do whatever Mordecai said, just as she had done when he was raising her.

Now Haman went forth that day pleased and very much encouraged. But when Haman saw Mordecai at the king’s gate, and he did not rise nor tremble in his presence, Haman was filled with rage toward Mordecai.

Now Esther had not disclosed her people or her lineage, for Mordecai had instructed her not to do so.

Now when the young women were being gathered again, Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate.

When Haman saw that Mordecai was not bowing or paying homage to him, he was filled with rage.

So Hathach went to Mordecai at the plaza of the city in front of the king’s gate.

Then the servants of the king who were at the king’s gate asked Mordecai, “Why are you violating the king’s commandment?”

Yet all of this fails to satisfy me so long as I have to see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

Then Mordecai again sat at the king’s gate, while Haman hurried away to his home, mournful and with a veil over his head.

So they hanged Haman on the very gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. The king’s rage then abated.

Mordecai wrote these matters down and sent letters to all the Jews who were throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far,

So Queen Esther, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter about Purim.