Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, (A)I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows,[a] because he intended to lay hands on the Jews. But you may write as you please with regard to the Jews, in the name of the king, (B)and seal it with the king's ring, for an edict written in the name of the king and sealed with the king's ring (C)cannot be revoked.”

(D)The king's scribes were summoned at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty-third day. And an edict was written, according to all that Mordecai commanded concerning the Jews, to (E)the satraps and the governors and the officials of the provinces (F)from India to Ethiopia, (G)127 provinces, (H)to each province in its own script and to each people in its own language, and also to the Jews in their script and their language.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 8:7 Or wooden beam (see note on 2:23)

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