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English
9 Aridata, and Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and 10 Vayzata, the ten * sons of Haman, son of Hamedata, enemy of the Jews — but they did not even touch the plunder. 11 On that same day, the number of those killed in the imperial city, Shushan, 12 was brought to the king, and the king said to Queen Esther, “The Jews have killed five hundred men in the imperial city of Shushan, alone, as well as Haman’s ten sons — what must they have done in the rest of the king’s prov- inces? And now - what is your desire? It shall be yours. And what would you 13, ask further? It shall be done.” And Esther said, “If so it please the king, may the Jews of Shushan be granted tomorrow also, to do as they did today. And 14 let Haman’sten sons be hung up on the post.’ And thus the king commanded; the law was laid down in the imperial city, Shushan, and Haman’s ten sons 1s were hung up. And the Jews of Shushan gathered on the fourteenth day of Adar also, and killed three hundred men in Shushan, never once touching the plunder. 16 Meanwhile, the rest of the Jews in the king’s provinces, having come together and stood up to defend their lives, found rest from their enemies, killing seventy-five thousand of those who hated them, though they did not touch 17 the plunder. That was on the thirteenth day of the month - and on the four- teenth they rested, and made it a day of feasting and happiness. 18 And the Jews who were in Shushan came together both on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth, and rested on the fifteenth, and made that a day of 19 feasting and happiness. Thus it came about that provincial Jews, living in unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month of Adar a day of hap- piness, of feasting and festivity, and of sending one another good things to eat. 20 Mordekhai wrote all this down, and sent scrolls to all the Jews in all the 21 provinces of King Ahasuerus, near and far, to establish among them that they should mark the fourteenth and fifteenth days of Adar every single 22 year: the days when the Jews rested from their enemies - the month that
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