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Greek Esther 3:7

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7In the twelfth year of the reign of Artaxerxes, Hamanl came to a decision and cast lots, taking the days and the months one by one, to fix on one day to destroy the whole people of Mordecai. The lot fell on the fourteenthm day of the month of Adar.*

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Footnotes

  1. lGk he
  2. mOther ancient witnesses read thirteenth

Cross references

  1. *Esth 3:7; 9:24, 26

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KJV 1900King James Version

In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.