The King’s Decree Avenges the Jews

⁷ So King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, ^(A)I have given the house of Haman to Esther, and him they have hanged on the ^[a]gallows because he had sent forth his hand against the Jews. ⁸ Now you write to the Jews, according to what is good in your eyes, in the king’s name, and ^(B)seal it with the king’s signet ring; for a written decree which is written in the name of the king and sealed with the king’s signet ring ^(C)may not be turned back.”

^9 (D)So the king’s scribes were called at that time in the third month (that is, the month Sivan), on the twenty-third ^[b]day; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, the satraps, the governors, and the princes of the provinces which extended ^(E)from India to ^[c]Ethiopia, 127 provinces, to ^(F)every province according to its script, and to every people according to their tongue as well as to the Jews according to their script and their tongue.