And the Jews struck against all their enemies with a stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did according to their will to those who hated them.
And the sons went in and possessed the land, and You humbled those living in the land before them, the Canaanites. And You gave them into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, to do with them as they desired.
And 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.
In which the king gave to the Jews in city by city the right to assemble, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province, the ones compressing them, little ones and women, and to plunder them for a prize,
Therefore, give their sons to the famine, and make them run onto the hand of the sword. And let their wives be bereaved, and be widows, and let their men be the slain of death, their young men be those struck by the sword in battle.