VIN(i)
1 On that night, the king couldn’t sleep. He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read to the king.
2 It was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who were doorkeepers, who had tried to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus.
3 The king said: "What honor and reward have been given to Mordecai for this?" The servants waiting on the king said: "Nothing has been done for him."
4 The king said, "Who is in the court?" Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king's house, to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
5 The servants answered: Aman standeth in the court, and the king said: Let him come in.
6 After Haman came in, the king asked him, "What should be done for the man whom the king desires to honor?" Haman said to himself, "Whom would the king desire to honor more than me?"
7 And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delights to honor,
8 let them bring royal robes that the king has worn and a horse on which the king has ridden, with a royal crown placed on its head.
9 And let the robes and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man with whom the king delights to honor, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.
10 Then the king said to Haman, "Hurry and take the clothing and the horse, as you have said, and do this for Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king's gate. Let nothing fail of all that you have spoken."
11 Then Haman took the clothing and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and had him ride through the city square, and proclaimed before him, “Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!”
12 And Mordecai returned to the palace. But Haman went home mourning, and covered his head.
13 Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him. His wise friends and his wife Zeresh said to him, "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fail, is one of the Jewish people, you won't prevail against him. Instead, you will surely fall before him."