⁹ And the secretaries of the king were summoned^[a] at that time, in the third month, which is in the month of Sivan on the twenty-third day, and an edict was written according to all that Mordecai commanded, to the Jews and to the governors and satraps and officials of the provinces from India to Cush^[b]—one hundred and twenty-seven provinces^[c]—each province according to its own script and to every people in their own language,^[d] and to the Jews in their own script and language.