Let it be written; let there be a written edict from the king. Ten thousand talents of silver; whether these were Hebrew, or Babylonish, or Grecian talents we cannot certainly know; but whichsoever they were, it was a vast sum to be paid out of his own estate, which he was willing to sacrifice to his revenge. The charge of the business; either,
1. Of this business, to wit, of destroying the Jews; which as soon as they have procured to be done, I will pay the money into their hands, that by them it may be paid into the king's exchequer. Or rather,
2. Of the king's business, or of the treasures, as is implied in the following words. I will pay it to the king's receivers, that they may put it into the king's treasures.