But Haman wanted to know the best time to kill all the Jews. In the Persian culture, there was a ceremony called Pur. In that ceremony, someone would drop special stones onto the ground. Then they would look at the stones and tell everyone the best day of the year to do whatever they were planning to do. So someone did that ceremony for Haman and said that the best time to kill all the Jews was in the last month of that 12th year. The Pur ceremony for Haman was done in the first month of the 12th year after Zerk-sees started to be the king of Persia.