13 Letters were sent by couriers(A) to each of the royal provinces telling the officials to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jewish people—young and old, women and children—and plunder their possessions on a single day,(B) the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 3:13 LXX adds the text of Ahasuerus’s letter here.

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