¹¹ By these letters the king permitted the Jews who were in every city to ^(A)gather together and protect their lives—to ^(B)destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province that would assault them, both little children and women, and to plunder their possessions,

^10 (A)the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews—they killed; ^(B)but they did not lay a hand on the ^[a]plunder.