¹³ And the letters were ^(A)sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all the Jews, both young and old, little children and women, ^(B)in one day, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and ^(C)to plunder their ^[a]possessions.

⁵ Thus the Jews defeated all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, with slaughter and destruction, and did what they pleased with those who hated them.