Haman’s Plot to Destroy the Jews

3 After these events, King Xerxes honored Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite,^(A) elevating him and giving him a seat of honor higher than that of all the other nobles.

¹¹ Haman boasted^(A) to them about his vast wealth, his many sons,^(B) and all the ways the king had honored him and how he had elevated him above the other nobles and officials.

¹² The day appointed for the Jews to do this in all the provinces of King Xerxes was the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar.^(A)