^11 [a]In them the king gave the Jews who were in each and every city the right ^(A)to assemble and to make a stand for their lives, ^(B)to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish the entire military force of any people or province which would act as their adversaries, including little ones and women, and ^(C)to plunder their spoil,

¹⁵ And the Jews who were in Susa assembled also on the fourteenth day of the month Adar and killed ^(A)300 men in Susa, but ^(B)they did not send forth their hand for the plunder.

¹⁶ Now ^(C)the rest of the Jews who were in the king’s provinces ^(D)assembled, to make a stand for their lives and obtain rest for themselves from their enemies, and to kill 75,000 of those who hated them; but they did not send forth their hand for the plunder. ¹⁷ This was done on ^(E)the thirteenth day of the month Adar, and ^(F)on the fourteenth ^[a]day they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

¹⁸ But the Jews who were in Susa ^(G)assembled on the thirteenth and ^(H)the fourteenth ^[b]of the same month, and they rested on the fifteenth ^[c]day and made it a day of feasting and gladness.