^11 [a]In them the king granted the Jews who were in each and every city the right ^(A)to assemble and to defend their lives, ^(B)to destroy, to kill and to annihilate the entire army of any people or province which might attack them, including children and women, and ^(C)to plunder their spoil,

¹⁵ The Jews who were in Susa assembled also on the fourteenth day of the month Adar and killed ^(A)three hundred men in Susa, but ^(B)they did not lay their hands on the plunder.