11"Keep the money," the king said to Haman, "and do with the people as you please."


In Context

8 Then Haman said to King Xerxes, "There is a certain people dispersed and scattered among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom whose customs are different from those of all other people and who do not obey the king's laws; it is not in the king's best interest to tolerate them.

9 If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will put ten thousand talents of silver into the royal treasury for the men who carry out this business."

10 So the king took his signet ring from his finger and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.

11 "Keep the money," the king said to Haman, "and do with the people as you please."

12 Then on the thirteenth day of the first month the royal secretaries were summoned. They wrote out in the script of each province and in the language of each people all Haman's orders to the king's satraps, the governors of the various provinces and the nobles of the various peoples. These were written in the name of King Xerxes himself and sealed with his own ring.

13 Dispatches were sent by couriers to all the king's provinces with the order to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews- young and old, women and little children-on a single day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.

Esther 3:11 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:11And the king said unto Haman, The silver [is] given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:11And he said to him: As to the money which thou promisest, keep it for thyself: and as to the people, do with them as seemeth good to thee.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:11And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:11And the king said to Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as seems good to thee.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:11And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:11And the king said to Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:11The king said to Haman, |The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:11and the king saith to Haman, 'The silver is given to thee, and the people, to do with it as it is good in thine eyes.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:11And the king said to Haman, The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.