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Esther 3:9

If it please the king, let it be written 2that they may be destroyed: and I will 3pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.

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 it into the king's treasuries.

NKJV: If it pleases the king, let a decree be written that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who do the work, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.”

ESV: If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay 10,000 talents of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king's business, that they may put it into the king's treasuries.”

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2:

Heb. to destroy them.

3:

Heb. weigh.