en_tn/est/05/14.md

650 B

a gallows

a structure used for killing a person by tying one end of a a rope around the top of the structure and the other end of the rope around the person's neck and hanging him from it. See how you translated this in Esther 2:23. (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-unknown)

fifty cubits high

"50 cubits high." You may convert this to a modern measure. Alternate translation: "twenty-three meters high" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-numbers and rc://en/ta/man/jit/translate-bdistance)

he had the gallows constructed

"he told people to construct the gallows"

This pleased Haman

"Haman liked this idea"