13 And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.
Esther 3:13
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Greek Esther 3:12–14
12 So the king’s recorders were called in the first month, on the thirteenth day, and they wrote as Haman commanded to the captains and governors in every province, from India even to Ethiopia, to one hundred twenty-seven provinces; and to the rulers of the nati… (WEB)
Greek Esther 13:5–7
5 Seeing then we understand that this people alone is continually in opposition unto all men, differing in the strange manner of their laws, and evil affected to our state, working all the mischief they can that our kingdom may not be firmly established: (KJV) 6 Therefo… (KJV)
Esther 8:10–12
10 Mordecai wrote in the name of King Xerxes and sealed it with the royal signet ring. He sent the documents by mounted couriers riding on swift horses bred from the royal mares. 11 By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to ass…
Greek Esther 3:5–7
5 When Haman understood that Mordecai didn’t bow down to him, he was greatly enraged, (WEB) 6 and plotted to utterly destroy all the Jews who were under the rule of Ahasuerus. (WEB) 7 In the twelfth year of the reign of Ahasuerus, Haman made a decision by casting lots by day and… (WEB)
Greek Esther 8:11–13
11 In them, he charged them to use their own laws in every city, to help each other, and to treat their adversaries and those who attacked them as they pleased, (WEB) 12 on one day in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is Adar. (WEB) 13a … (WEB)
Esther 9:1–2
1 On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the king’s command and edict were to be executed. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but their plan was overturned and the Jews overpowered those who hated them. 2 In ea…
Greek Esther 16:19–21
19 Therefore ye shall publish the copy of this letter in all places, that the Jews may freely live after their own laws. (KJV) 20 And ye shall aid them, that even the same day, being the thirteenth day of the twelfth month Adar, they may be avenged on them, who in the tim… (KJV)
Greek Esther 9:1–2
1 Now in the twelfth month, on the thirteenth day of the month, which is Adar, the letters written by the king arrived. (WEB) 2 In that day, the adversaries of the Jews perished; for no one resisted, through fear of them. (WEB)
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