On the king’s eunuchs see 1.10.

The Revised Standard Version translation brought Haman in haste to the banquet (so also New Revised Standard Version, Revised English Bible, Traduction œcuménique de la Bible) is a more natural translation of the Hebrew punctuation and word order than the Today’s English Version and New Jerusalem Bible translations, which say that they “arrived in a hurry.” That is, the words in haste go with the verb brought and not with the verb arrived.

Banquet: see comments on 1.3.

Prepared: see comments on 5.4.

Septuagint 6.14

The Hebrew includes with him after the verb talking; the Septuagint does not.

The Greek says only the eunuchs rather than “the king’s eunuchs.”

Hurriedly brought: the Greek specifies that “the eunuchs arrived hurrying Haman to the banquet…” (so Traduction œcuménique de la Bible).

Quoted with permission from Omanson, Roger L. and Noss, Philip A. A Handbook on the Book of Esther — Deuterocanon: The Greek Text. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 1997. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .