Esther 6 During that night, sleep flit away from the king, and he said to bring the memorial scroll of records of the days; and they were read before the king.

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ During that night, sleep flit away from the king, and he said to bring the memorial scroll of records of the days; and they were read before the king. ² There it was found written that Mordecai had denounced Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs of the guardians of the threshold, who had sought to lay hand on king Xerxes. ³ The king asked:What esteem and greatness has been conferred on Mordecai for this? The king's retainers who were ministering to him answered:Nothing was conferred on him. ⁴ Then the king asked:Who is in the court? (Now Haman had just entered the court outside the king's house, to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.. ⁵ The king's retainers replied to him:Here is Haman standing in the court. So the king commanded:Let him enter. ⁶ When Haman came in, the king asked him:What ought to be done for the man in whose esteem the king has taken a delight? Now Haman said in his heart:To whom but me would the king desire to confer superlative esteem? ⁷ So Haman said to the king:For the man in whose esteem the king has taken a delight, ⁸ let them bring out royal garment with which the king has clothed himself, and a horse on which the king has ridden, with the royal diadem that has been placed on its head. ⁹ Then may the garment and horse be put at the hand of one of the king's highborn chief officials, and let him clothe the man in whose esteem the king has taken a delight, and parade him on the horse in the city square, while proclaiming before him:Thus is it done to the man in whose esteem the king has taken a delight. ¹⁰ Then the king commanded Haman:Make haste and take the garment and the horse, just as you have said, and deal in this way with Mordecai the Jew who is sitting in the king's gateway. You must not omit anything of all that you have spoken. ¹¹ So Haman took the garment and the horse, clothed Mordecai and paraded him in the city square while he proclaimed before him:Thus is it done to the man in whose esteem the king has taken a delight. ¹² Then Mordecai returned to the king's gateway. As for Haman, he went posthaste to his house, mournful with hooded head. ¹³ Haman related to his wife Zeresh and to all his male friends everything that had just happened to him. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him:Since Mordecai, before whom you have started to fall, is from the seed of the Jews, you shall not prevail against him; indeed, you shall fall, yea fall before him. ¹⁴ While they were still speaking with him, the king's eunuchs attained and hustled to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.