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13 and letters to be sent by the hand of the runners to all provinces of the king, to cut off, to slay, and to destroy all the Jews, from young even to old, infant and women, on one day, on the thirteenth of the twelfth month—it [is] the month of Adar—and to seize their spoil, 14 a copy of the writing to be made law in each and every province is revealed to all the peoples, to be ready for this day. 15 The runners have gone forth, hurried by the word of the king, and the law has been given in Shushan the palace, and the king and Haman have sat down to drink, and the city Shushan is perplexed. Esther 3:13-15, Literal Standard Version. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press.
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