Esther 8:11
New American Standard Bible
11 [a]In the letters the king granted the Jews who were in each and every city the right (A)to assemble and to defend their lives, (B)to destroy, kill, and eliminate the entire army of any people or province which was going to attack them, including children and women, and (C)to plunder their spoils,
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- Esther 8:11 Lit Which the king
Esther 9:15-18
New American Standard Bible
15 The Jews who were in Susa assembled also on the fourteenth day of the month Adar and killed (A)three hundred men in Susa, but (B)they did not lay their hands on the plunder.
16 Now (C)the rest of the Jews who were in the king’s provinces (D)assembled, to defend their lives and [a]rid themselves of their enemies, and to kill seventy-five thousand of those who hated them; but they did not lay their hands on the plunder. 17 This was done on (E)the thirteenth day of the month Adar, and (F)on the fourteenth [b]day they rested and made it a day of feasting and rejoicing.
18 But the Jews who were in Susa (G)assembled on the thirteenth and (H)the fourteenth [c]of the same month, and they rested on the fifteenth [d]day and made it a day of feasting and rejoicing.
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- Esther 9:16 Lit have rest from
- Esther 9:17 Lit in it
- Esther 9:18 Lit in it
- Esther 9:18 Lit in it
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