Esther 3:12-13
12 a Then the king’s scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and an edict, according to all that Haman commanded, was written to the king’s b satraps and to the governors over all the provinces and to the officials of all the peoples c to every province in its own script and every people in its own language. It was written d in the name of King Ahasuerus e and sealed with the king’s signet ring. 13 Letters were sent f by couriers to all the king’s provinces with instruction g to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children h in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar i and to plunder their goods.
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