13 And Esther said, “If it please the king, let the Jews who are in Susa be allowed (A)tomorrow also to do according to this day's edict. And let the ten sons of Haman be hanged on the gallows.”[a] 14 So the king commanded this to be done. A decree was issued in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hanged. 15 The Jews who were in Susa gathered also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and they killed 300 men in Susa, but they laid no hands on the plunder.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 9:13 Or wooden beam; also verse 25 (see note on 2:23)

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