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If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay 10,000 talents[a] 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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  1. Esther 3:9 A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms

If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will give ten thousand talents[a] of silver to the king’s administrators for the royal treasury.”(A)

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  1. Esther 3:9 That is, about 375 tons or about 340 metric tons

and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, (A)and the exact sum of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king's treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.

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Mordecai told him everything that had happened to him, including the exact amount of money Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury for the destruction of the Jews.(A)

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