Creation year 3449 · Nisan calendar year 1003 · Historical date about 474 BC · working identification · Haman
Haman casts the lot in Nisan of Ahasuerus’s twelfth year. This fixes the opening of the crisis in Nisan year 1003 and Creation year 3449 under the working identification.
King James Version
“In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.”
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