Life of Mordecai

And when the king arose from his sleep, he said to his two eunuchs who were accustomed to give him drink, "Give me a little water," and they brought a golden pitcher with the poison of death within it. He said to them, "Pour out the water before me." They said to him, "Our lord the king, it is clear water, good and fair, and why should we pour it out before you?" He said to them, "Thus it has arisen in my heart, to pour it out before me." And they poured the water out before him, and he found the poison of death within it, and he commanded that they be hanged, as it is said, "and they were both hanged on a tree" (Esther 2:23). And they were both hanged on a single tree, one after the other, as it is said, "on a tree," and it is not written "on trees." And every matter that was done before the king they would write down before him and place in the king's archive. And when the king wished to see what had happened to him, they would read in the records, and he would know what had happened to him. And they wrote the matter that Mordecai had reported in a record, as it is said, "and it was written in the book of the chronicles" (Esther 2:23).