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Esther 3:5-7
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Esther 3:5-7
Holman Christian Standard Bible
5 When Haman saw that Mordecai was not bowing down or paying him homage, he was filled with rage.(A) 6 And when he learned of Mordecai’s ethnic identity, Haman decided not to do away with[a] Mordecai alone. He planned to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews,(B) throughout Ahasuerus’s kingdom.(C)
7 In the first month, the month of Nisan,[b] in King Ahasuerus’s twelfth year,[c](D) Pur (that is, the lot) was cast before Haman for each day in each month, and it fell on the twelfth month,(E) the month Adar.[d](F)
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- Esther 3:6 Lit to stretch out a hand against
- Esther 3:7 = March–April; called Abib in the pre-exilic period; Ex 13:4; Dt 16:1
- Esther 3:7 474 b.c.
- Esther 3:7 = February–March
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