Add parallel Print Page Options

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]

14 A copy of the text, issued as law throughout every province, was distributed to all the peoples so that they might get ready for that day.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

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