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"If my lord is kind enough to grant my request, I would like you and Haman to be my guests tomorrow at another banquet that I will prepare for you. It will be just like this one."
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When Haman left the king he was happy and in a good mood, until he saw Mordecai the Jew in the courtyard of the palace. That made him furious,
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but he went on home. Then he invited his friends to his house and asked his wife Zeresh to join them.
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He boasted to them about how rich he was and about the honor the king had paid him when he promoted him to high office and made him prime minister.
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"What is more," Haman said, "Queen Esther gave a banquet for no one but the king and me, and we are invited back tomorrow.
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But none of this means a thing to me as long as I see that Jew Mordecai sitting in the courtyard of the palace."