Esther 3:13King James 3 - The Literal TraslationAnd the documents were sent by the runners into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, on the thirteenth of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder them for a prize. See the chapter |
and she said, If it is good to the king, and if I have found favor before him, and the thing is pleasing before the king, and I am good in his eyes, let it be written to cause to bring back the documents (a sly plot by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite) which he wrote to cause to perish the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces.
And in the twelfth month, that is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day in it, when drew near the word of the king and his law came to be done, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them (though it was turned around, so that the Jews ruled, they over the ones hating them),