Esther 3:8-9

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.”