Esther 3:6-7

Holman Christian Standard Bible

⁶ And when he learned of Mordecai’s ethnic identity, Haman decided not to do away with^[a] Mordecai alone. He planned to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews,^(A) throughout Ahasuerus’s kingdom.^(B)

⁷ In the first month, the month of Nisan,^[b] in King Ahasuerus’s twelfth year,^[c](C) Pur (that is, the lot) was cast before Haman for each day in each month, and it fell on the twelfth month,^(D) the month Adar.^[d](E)