Esther 8:10-12

New American Standard Bible 1995

¹⁰ He wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king’s signet ring, and sent letters by couriers on ^(A)horses, riding on steeds sired by the royal stud. ^11 [a]In them the king granted the Jews who were in each and every city the right ^(B)to assemble and to defend their lives, ^(C)to destroy, to kill and to annihilate the entire army of any people or province which might attack them, including children and women, and ^(D)to plunder their spoil, ¹² on ^(E)one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month (that is, the month Adar).