16 The rest of the Jews in the royal provinces assembled, defended themselves, and got rid of[a] their enemies. They killed 75,000[b] of those who hated them,(A) but they did not seize[c] any plunder. 17 They fought on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar and rested on the fourteenth, and it became a day of feasting and rejoicing.

18 But the Jews in Susa had assembled on the thirteenth and the fourteenth days of the month. They rested on the fifteenth day of the month, and it became a day of feasting and rejoicing.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 9:16 Lit and gained relief from
  2. Esther 9:16 Some LXX mss read 10,107; other LXX mss read 15,000
  3. Esther 9:16 Lit not put their hands on

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