Esther 13:5-7

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁵ Wherefore having learned this, and seeing one nation in opposition to all mankind using perverse laws, and going against our commandments, and disturbing the peace and concord of the provinces subject to us,

⁶ We have commanded that all whom Aman shall mark out, who is chief over all the provinces, and second after the king, and whom we honour as a father, shall be utterly destroyed by their enemies, with their wives and children, and that none shall have pity on them. on the fourteenth day of the twelfth month Adar of this present year:

⁷ That these wicked men going down to hell in one day, may restore to our empire the peace which they had disturbed.