¹¹ By these letters the king permitted the Jews who were in every city to ^(A)gather together and protect their lives—to ^(B)destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province that would assault them, both little children and women, and to plunder their possessions,

¹⁵ And the Jews who were in ^[a]Shushan ^(A)gathered together again on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and killed three hundred men at Shushan; ^(B)but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.

¹⁶ The remainder of the Jews in the king’s provinces ^(C)gathered together and protected their lives, had rest from their enemies, and killed seventy-five thousand of their enemies; ^(D)but they did not lay a hand on the plunder. ¹⁷ This was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar. And on the fourteenth of ^[b]the month they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

The Feast of Purim

¹⁸ But the Jews who were at ^[c]Shushan assembled together ^(E)on the thirteenth day, as well as on the fourteenth; and on the fifteenth of ^[d]the month they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.