3 When the king had heard this, he said, 'What honor and reward has Mordecai been given for this fidelity?' His servants and ministers said to him, 'He has received no compensation at all.'
4 And immediately the king said, 'Who is in the atrium?' For, you see, Haman was entering the inner atrium of the king's house to suggest to the king that he should order Mordecai to be hanged on the gallows, which had been prepared for him.
5 The servants answered, 'Haman is standing in the atrium.' And the king said, 'Let him enter.'
6 And when he had entered, he said to him, 'What ought to be done for the man whom the king wishes to honor?' But Haman, thinking in his heart and supposing that the king would honor no one else but himself,
7 answered, 'The man whom the king wishes to honor,
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