The king’s servants who attended him said, “Let a search be conducted in the king’s behalf for attractive young women.

The king’s attendants said to him, “It is Haman who is standing in the courtyard.” The king said, “Let him enter.”

The king asked, “What great honor was bestowed on Mordecai because of this?” The king’s attendants who served him responded, “Not a thing was done for him.”

Letters were sent by the runners to all the king’s provinces stating that they should destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews, from youth to elderly, both women and children, on a particular day, namely the thirteenth day of the twelfth month (that is, the month of Adar), and to loot and plunder their possessions.