Esther 9:7-9

7-9. Parshandatha… Vajezatha These names of Haman’s ten sons are written in Hebrew MSS. in perpendicular columns, and it is said that the reader in the synagogue is required to pronounce them all at one breath. The Targum says they were all suspended, one above another, upon one cross, fifty cubits high, which Mordecai had prepared for the purpose. In the Masoretic text the letters ת and שׁ , in the names of Parshandatha and Parmashta, are written in smaller form than the rest, and in the last name, Vajezatha, the ו is written large, and the ז small all which, perhaps, represents some mystic Rabbinical conceit. Most of these names are of Persian origin, a fact which has great weight in showing the genuineness of the Book of Esther.