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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/translate/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/translate/translate-numbers and rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-bdistance)
he had the gallows constructed
"he told people to construct the gallows"
This pleased Haman
"Haman liked this idea"