¹³ Letters were sent by couriers^(A) to each of the royal provinces telling the officials to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jewish people – young and old, women and children – and plunder their possessions on a single day,^(B) the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.^[a]

¹⁰ They killed these ten sons^(A) of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews.^(B) However, they did not seize^[a] any plunder.^(C)