9 If to the king it does seem good, let there be a writing that they be destroyed; and ten thousand+ silver talents* I shall pay into the hands of those doing the work+ by bringing [it] into the king’s treasury.”

7 Then Morʹde·cai told him about all the things that had befallen him+ and the exact statement of the money that Haʹman had said to pay to the king’s treasury+ against the Jews, to destroy them.+

8 And a copy+ of the writing of the law that had been given in Shuʹshan+ to have them annihilated he gave him to show Esther and to tell her and to lay the command upon her+ to come in to the king and implore favor of him+ and make request directly before him for her own people.+