ABSTRACT
Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “One people diverge, scattered and divided among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. And their laws are different from every other people, and they never do the laws of the king. And, as concerns the king, there must be no willingness to tolerate them. If it pleases the king, let it be written for their annihilation” . . . and it was written according to all that Haman commanded, to the satraps of the king and to the governors who were over each and every province, and to the chiefs of every people of every province, according to its script, and every people according to its language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed with the king’s signet. And the writings were sent out by the runners to all provinces of the king, to wipe out, to slaughter, and to annihilate all Jews, from youngest to oldest, children and women, in a single day.
