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THE BOOK OF
ESTHER
CHAPTER 6
  4 ¶ And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward acourt of the king’s house, to bspeak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

Footnotes
4a
Esth. 4: 11.
  11 All the king’s servants, and the people of the king’s provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner acourt, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to bdeath, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden csceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.
b
Esth. 5: 14.
  14 ¶ Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a agallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow bspeak 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.