13 Letters were sent by couriers(A) to each of the royal provinces telling the officials to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jewish people—young and old, women and children—and plunder their possessions on a single day,(B) the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.[a]

14 A copy of the text, issued as law throughout every province, was distributed to all the peoples so that they might get ready for that day.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 3:13 LXX adds the text of Ahasuerus’s letter here.

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