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8 On that day king Xerxes gave queen Esther the property of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And when Mordecai entered the king’s presence (for Esther told his relationship to her), 2 the king drew off his signet-ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai; and Esther put Mordecai in charge of the property of Haman.
3 Then Esther spoke once more to the king, falling at his feet with tears and begging him countermand the mischief of Haman the Agagite and the plot he had devised against the Jews. 4 The king held out to Esther the golden sceptre, and she rose from the ground to stand before the king, 5 saying, “If it please the king, and if I have won his favour, and if the king judge it right, and if I am pleasing to him, let there be a decree to reverse the despatches drawn up by Haman the Agagite for the destruction of the Jews in all the king’s provinces. 6 For how can I bear to witness the ruin that befalls my race? How can I bear to witness the destruction of my kindred?” 7 King Xerxes said to queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “See, I have given Esther the property of Haman, and him they have hanged on the gallows, because he laid hands on the Jews. 8 Now then, write any instructions you please regarding the Jews; write in the name of the king and seal it with the signet of the king, for no man can repeal a document written in the name of the king and sealed with the signet of the king.”
9 So the king’s secretaries were summoned on the twenty-third day of the third month, the month of Sivan, and a despatch was drawn up in terms of Mordecai’s orders, for the Jews, the satraps, the governors, and the officials of the provinces from India to Ethiopia, the hundred and twenty-seven provinces, written for every province in its own script and for every nation in its own language and for the Jews in their script and their language. 10 Mordecai wrote in the name of Xerxes and sealed the document with the king’s signet-ring. He sent the despatches by couriers mounted on fast horses, royal coursers bred from the stud, 11 giving the king’s permission to the Jews in any city to muster and defend their lives, to destroy, slay, and massacre all the armed forces of any race or province that might attack them, to kill their children and women, and to plunder their property, 12 upon a given day throughout all the provinces of king Xerxes, that is, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar. 13 The contents of the edict, to be promulgated in every province, were published to all races: the Jews were to be ready on that day to take vengeance upon their enemies.
14 So the couriers rode away, mounted on fast horses, royal coursers, urged on in haste by order of the king, once the edict had been published in the citadel of Susa. 15 Mordecai came out from the royal presence clad in royal robes of violet and white, with a large golden crown, and with a mantle of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa shouted for joy. 16 The Jews had light and joy and gladness and honour; 17 wherever the king’s command and edict arrived, in every province and city, the Jews had joy and gladness, banqueting and holiday. Indeed, many pagans became Jews, for fear of the Jews had fallen upon them.