22 He sent letters to all the royal provinces, to each province in its own script and to each ethnic group in its own language,(A) that every man should be master of his own house and speak in the language of his own people.

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On the twenty-third day of the third month(A) (that is, the month Sivan),[a] the royal scribes were summoned. Everything was written exactly as Mordecai(B) ordered for the Jews, to the satraps,(C) the governors, and the officials of the 127 provinces from India[b] to Cush.(D) The edict was written for each province in its own script, for each ethnic group in its own language,(E) and to the Jews in their own script and language.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 8:9 = May–June
  2. Esther 8:9 = modern Pakistan

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