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Now in the twelfth month, that
is,
the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the
king’s commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies
of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews
had rule over them that hated them;)
2
The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities
throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt: and
no man could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon all people.
3
And all the rulers of the
provinces, and the lieutenants, and the deputies, and officers of the king, helped the Jews; because
the fear of Mordecai fell upon them.
4
For Mordecai
was
great in the king’s house, and his fame
went out throughout all the provinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.
5
Thus the
Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did
what they would unto those that hated them.
6
And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed
five hundred men.
7
And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,
8
And Poratha, and Adalia, and
Aridatha,
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And Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha,
10
The ten sons of Haman the
son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand.
11
On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the
king.
12
And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred
men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the king’s
provinces? now what
is
thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what
is
thy request further?
and it shall be done.
13
Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which
are
in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto this day’s decree, and let Haman’s ten sons
be hanged upon the gallows.
14
And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given
at Shushan; and they hanged Haman’s ten sons.
15
For the Jews that
were
in Shushan gathered
themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at
Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.
16
But the other Jews that
were
in the king’s
provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies,
and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey,
17
On
the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made
it a day of feasting and gladness.
18
But the Jews that
were
at Shushan assembled together on the
thirteenth
day
thereof; and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth
day
of the same they
rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
19
Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt
in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar
a day of
gladness and feasting,
and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
20
And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that
were
in all the provinces
of the king Ahasuerus,
both
nigh and far,
21
To stablish
this
among them, that they should keep the
fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
22
As the days wherein
the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy,
and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of
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