“Then were the king’s scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king’s lieutenants, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king’s ring.”
The king's scribes are called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and an edict is written according to all that Haman commands to the king's satraps and to the governors of each province and to the officials of each people, in the writing of each people and in the language of each language, sealed with the king's ring. This comprehensive administrative action demonstrates how the king's bureaucratic apparatus is mobilized to carry out Haman's genocidal intentions, with the edict being written in every language and sent to every part of the empire. The irony lies in the fact that the same administrative machinery that brought Esther to power is now being used to threaten her people with destruction, showing how institutional structures can be turned toward either redemptive or destructive ends depending on who controls them.
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