And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Durst. Hebrew, "laid. "He had sufficiently manifested his intention to destroy them, though he had not been able to injure any one. (Haydock)
