Esther 3:8-11

8Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; 1their laws are different from those of all other people and they do not 2comply with the king’s laws, so it is not in the king’s interest to let them remain. 9If it is pleasing to the king, let it be 3decreed that they be eliminated, and I will pay 4ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who carry out the king’s business, to put into the king’s treasuries.” 10Then 5the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha 6the Agagite, 7the enemy of the Jews. 11And the king said to Haman, “The silver is 8yours, and the people also, to do with them as you please.”