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AddEsth.12
[1] Now Mordecai took his rest in the courtyard with Gabatha and Tharra, the two eunuchs of the king who kept watch in the courtyard.
[2] He overheard their conversation and inquired into their purposes, and learned that they were preparing to lay hands upon Artaxerxes the king; and he informed the king concerning them.
[3] Then the king examined the two eunuchs, and when they confessed they were led to execution.
[4] The king made a permanent record of these things, and Mordecai wrote an account of them.
[5] And the king ordered Mordecai to serve in the court and rewarded him for these things.
[6] But Haman, the son of Hammedatha, a Bougaean, was in great honor with the king, and he sought to injure Mordecai and his people because of the two eunuchs of the king.