¹³ And they took their bones ^(A)and buried them under ^(B)the tamarisk tree in Jabesh and ^(C)fasted seven days.

³ And in every province, wherever the king's command and his decree reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, ^(A)with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and many of them ^(B)lay in sackcloth and ashes.