6 And Esther said, 'This is our most wicked enemy and foe: Haman!' Hearing this, Haman was suddenly dumbfounded, unable to bear the faces of the king and the queen.
7 But the king, being angry, rose up and, from the place of the feast, entered into the arboretum of the garden. Haman likewise rose up to entreat Esther the queen for his soul, for he understood that evil was prepared for him by the king.
8 When the king returned from the arboretum of the garden and entered into the place of the feast, he found Haman collapsed on the couch on which Esther lay, and he said, 'And now he wishes to oppress the queen, in my presence, in my house!' The word had not yet gone out of the king's mouth, and immediately they covered his face.
9 And Harbona, one of the eunuchs who stood in ministry to the king, said, 'Behold the wood, which he had prepared for Mordecai, who spoke up on behalf of the king, stands in Haman's house, having a height of fifty cubits.' The king said to him, 'Hang him from it.'
10 And so Haman was hanged on the gallows, which he had prepared for Mordecai, and the king's anger was quieted.
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