¹⁰ And he wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed it with the king’s signet ring and sent letters by the hand of couriers on ^(A)horses, riding on steeds sired by the ^[a]royal stud. ^11 [b]In them the king gave the Jews who were in each and every city the right ^(B)to assemble and to make a stand for their lives, ^(C)to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish the entire military force of any people or province which would act as their adversaries, including little ones 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).