Esther 3:8
And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of your kingdom; and their laws diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it not for the king's profit to suffer them.
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6 And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, the people of Mordecai.
7 In the first month, that , the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that , the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, the twelfth , that , the month Adar.
8 And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of your kingdom; and their laws diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it not for the king's profit to suffer them.
9 If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring into the king's treasuries.
10 And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.