14 So the king commanded that it was to be done so; and an edict was issued in Susa, and Haman’s ten sons were hanged. 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.

16 Now (C)the rest of the Jews who were in the king’s provinces (D)assembled, to defend their lives and [a]rid themselves of their enemies, and to kill seventy-five thousand of those who hated them; but they did not lay their hands on the plunder.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 9:16 Lit have rest from

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