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Esther 9:15-17
New Catholic Bible
Esther 9:15-17
New Catholic Bible
15 The Jews in Susa came together on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and they put to death three hundred men in Susa. However, they did not engage in plundering.[a]
16 Meanwhile, the other Jews who were in the king’s provinces also assembled to protect themselves and to obtain rest from their enemies. They killed seventy-five thousand[b] of them, but they did not engage in plundering. 17 This took place on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day of the month they rested and made it a day of feasting and joy.
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- Esther 9:15 This second massacre accounts for the two dates of the Purim celebration by Jews in Susa—thirteenth and fourteenth of Adar (see v. 18).
- Esther 9:16 Seventy-five thousand: in the Greek version, the number is fifteen thousand. This too may be the result of a literary artifice as in the case of the gallows for Mordecai (see Est 5:14).
