¹¹ On that day the number of those who were killed at the citadel in Susa ^[a]was reported to the king. ¹² And the king said to Queen Esther, “The Jews have killed and eliminated five hundred men and the ten sons of Haman at the citadel in Susa. What have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! ^(A)Now what is your request? It shall also be granted you. And what is your further wish? It shall also be done.” ¹³ Then Esther said, “If it pleases the king, ^(B)let tomorrow also be granted to the Jews who are in Susa to do according to the edict of today; and let Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the wooden gallows.” ¹⁴ So the king commanded that it was to be done so; and an edict was issued in Susa, and Haman’s ten sons were hanged. ¹⁵ The Jews who were in Susa assembled also on the fourteenth day of the month Adar and killed ^(C)three hundred men in Susa, but ^(D)they did not lay their hands on the plunder.

¹⁶ Now ^(E)the rest of the Jews who were in the king’s provinces ^(F)assembled, to defend their lives and ^[b]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.