^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,

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.