6:1That night the king passed sleepless, and ordered the histories and annals of former times to be brought to him. 6:1And when these were being read in his presence, they came to that place where it was written how Mordecai had reported the plot of Bigthan and Teresh, the eunuchs, who desired to cut the throat of King Ahasuerus. 6:3When the king had heard this, he said: "What of honour and reward has Mordecai obtained for this faithfulness?" 6:3His servants and ministers said to him: "He has received no reward at all." 6:4And at once the king: "Who is in the court?" he said. 6:4For Haman had entered the inner court of the royal house, to suggest to the king, and to urge that Mordecai be fixed to the gibbet which had been prepared for him.
6:5The servants answered: "Haman is standing in the court." 6:5And the king said: "Let him come in." 6:6And when he had come in, he said to him: "What ought to be done for the man whom the king desires to honour?" 6:6But Haman, thinking in his heart, and reckoning that the king wished to honour no one else but himself, answered: "The man whom the king desires to honour ought to be clothed in royal garments, and placed on a horse which is of the king's saddle, and to receive the royal diadem upon his head: and let the first of the royal princes and nobles hold his horse, and, going through the street of the city, let him cry out, and say: 'So shall he be honoured, whomever the king wishes to honour.'"
6:10And the king said to him: "Hurry, and, the robe and the horse having been taken, do as you have spoken to Mordecai the Jew, who sits before the doors of the palace. 6:10Beware that you leave out nothing of these things which you have spoken." 6:11So Haman took the robe and the horse, and, Mordecai having been clothed in the street of the city and placed on the horse, he went before him, and cried out: "Of this honour he is worthy, whomever the king wishes to honour." 6:12And Mordecai returned to the gate of the palace: and Haman hurried to go to his house, mourning and with his head covered: and he told Zeresh his wife, and his friends, all the things that had happened to him.
6:13The wise men whom he had in council, and his wife, answered him: "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of the seed of the Jews, you will not be able to resist him, but you will fall in his sight." 6:14While they were still speaking, the king's eunuchs came, and compelled him to go quickly to the banquet which the queen had prepared.