¹³ Letters were sent by ^(A)couriers to all the king’s provinces ^(B)to annihilate, kill, and destroy all the Jews, both young and old, women and children, ^(C)in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to ^(D)seize their possessions as plunder.

The Jews Destroy Their Enemies

9 Now ^(A)in the twelfth month (that is, the month Adar), on ^(B)the thirteenth ^[a]day, ^(C)when the king’s command and edict were to be put into effect, on the day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, it turned out to the contrary so that the Jews themselves gained mastery over those who hated them.