The Feast of Purim

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

²¹ to establish among them that they should celebrate yearly the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar,

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.

¹³ Then Esther said, “If it pleases the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Shushan to do again tomorrow ^(A)according to today’s decree, and let Haman’s ten sons ^(B)be hanged on the gallows.”

The Jews Destroy Their Tormentors

9 Now ^(A)in the twelfth month, that is, the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day, ^(B)the time came for the king’s command and his decree to be executed. On the day that the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, the opposite occurred, in that the Jews themselves ^(C)overpowered those who hated them.

¹¹ On that day the number of those who were killed in ^[a]Shushan the ^[b]citadel ^[c]was brought to the king.