Esther 3:7

Nisan] i.e. March-April. The twelfth year of Xerxes would be 474 b.c. They cast Pur, etc.] i.e. early in the first month they cast lots for every day of the year to find out which day would be the most favourable for the success of Haman's design. In the Assyrian calendars there are lucky and unlucky days; and the Persians doubtless entertained a like belief. To the twelfth month] The Heb. is probably defective, and the LXX gives a completer sense by adding, 'and the lot fell on the fourteenth '(an error for the 'thirteenth,' href='190 3:13'>Est 3:13) 'day of the month, which is Adar.' Adar corresponded to February-March.