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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]

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  1. 3:13 LXX adds the text of Ahasuerus’s letter here.

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)

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  1. 9:10 Lit not put their hands on, also in vv. 15,16