13. “But all this does not suit me, as long as I see Mordeḵai the Yehuḏite sitting at the sovereign’s gate.”
14. So his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Let a stake be made, fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the sovereign that Mordeḵai be impaled on it. And go with the sovereign to the feast, rejoicing.” And the word pleased Haman, and he had the stake made.