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Esther 9:2
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Esther 9:2
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
2 the Jews gathered in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus to kill[a] those who had sought their ruin, and no one could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen upon all peoples.(A)
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- 9.2 Heb lay hands on
Esther 9:2
New International Version
Esther 9:2
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2 The Jews assembled in their cities(A) in all the provinces of King Xerxes to attack those determined to destroy them. No one could stand against them,(B) because the people of all the other nationalities were afraid of them.
Greek Esther 9:15
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Greek Esther 9:15
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15 The Jews who were in Susa gathered on the fourteenth and killed three hundred men but took no plunder.(A)
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Greek Esther 9:16
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Greek Esther 9:16
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16 Now the other Jews in the kingdom gathered to defend themselves and got relief from their enemies. They destroyed fifteen thousand of them on the thirteenth of Adar but did not engage in plunder.(A)
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