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On the twenty-third day of Sivan,[a] the third month, the king's secretaries wrote the law. They obeyed Mordecai and wrote to the Jews, the rulers, the governors, and the officials of all 127 provinces from India to Ethiopia.[b] The letters were written in every language used in the kingdom, including the Jewish language.

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  1. 8.9 Sivan: The third month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-May to mid-June.
  2. 8.9 Ethiopia: See the note at 1.1,2.

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