Ester 3:11

3:11 The king replied to Haman, “Keep your money, ¹  and do with those people whatever you wish.” ² 

Ester 5:13

5:13 Yet all of this fails to satisfy me so long as I have to see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

[3:11]  ¹ tn Heb “the silver is given to you”; NRSV “the money is given to you”; CEV “You can keep their money.” C. A. Moore (Esther [AB], 40) understands these words somewhat differently, taking them to imply acceptance of the money on Xerxes’ part. He translates, “Well, it’s your money.”

[3:11]  ² tn Heb “according to what is good in your eyes”; NASB “do with them as you please.”