Another matter: “If it pleases the king, let it be written to eliminate them” (Esther 3:9) – He [Haman] said to him [the king]: ‘You should write to give me the pen,’17Give me license to send letters in your name. and he said: ‘“I will weigh out ten thousand talents of silver by the hands of the king's craftsmen”’ (Ibid.).18I will submit payment even before the letter is written and the decree is fulfilled. Haman said to him: ‘At present, I do not know their number. When they left Egypt, they were six hundred thousand men, and for each of them I will give you one hundred zuz, which equals fifty shekels.’19Haman offered Aḥashverosh ten thousand silver talents. Each talent is the equivalent of sixty maneh, which is the equivalent of one hundred zuz.