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Esther 3:10-12
EasyEnglish Bible
Esther 3:10-12
EasyEnglish Bible
10 The king took his special ring from his finger and he gave it to Hammedatha's son, Haman, the Jews' great enemy.[a] 11 He said to Haman, ‘Keep your money. You should do anything that you want with these people.’
12 On the 13th day of the first month, Haman asked the king's secretaries to come to him. They wrote Haman's commands in letters to the king's rulers and officers in every region. They wrote the letters in the languages that people spoke in the different regions. Haman used the authority of King Xerxes and he marked the letters with the king's special ring.[b]
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- 3:10 Any law with the mark of the king's special ring on it had the king's authority. When the king gave his special ring to Haman, he was giving Haman his royal authority.
- 3:12 Haman used the king's authority to send the letters to destroy the Jews. But the king did not know that it was the Jews that Haman wanted to destroy. And he did not know that Queen Esther was a Jew.
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