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Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife (5:10) And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all [the things] wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king (5:11) Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to morrow am I invited unto her also with the king (5:12) Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate (5:13) Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made
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