Esther 5:8-10
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
8 If I have won the king’s favour, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfil my request, let the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet that I will prepare for them, and then I will do as the king has said.’
Haman Plans to Have Mordecai Hanged
9 Haman went out that day happy and in good spirits. But when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, and observed that he neither rose nor trembled before him, he was infuriated with Mordecai; 10 nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home. Then he sent and called for his friends and his wife Zeresh,
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