Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily unto him, and he hearkened not unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's words would stand: for he had told them that he was a Jew.

And Esther answered, If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.

Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.

For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?

Therefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them,