I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own free will to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.
And Harbo´na, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mor´decai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon.
Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan to do tomorrow also according unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.
For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.
If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
And when he looked on Am´alek, he took up his parable, and said, Am´alek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.