⁴ for ^(A)we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, ^(B)to be killed and to be annihilated. Now if we had only been sold as slaves, men and women, I would have remained silent, for the ^[a]trouble would not be commensurate with the ^[b]annoyance to the king.”

The Jews Destroy Their Enemies

9 Now ^(A)in the twelfth month (that is, the month Adar), on ^(B)the thirteenth ^[a]day ^(C)when the king’s command and edict ^[b]were about to be executed, on the day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, it was turned to the contrary so that the Jews themselves gained the mastery over those who hated them.