on onedayin allthe provincesof KingAhasuerus,the thirteenth[day] of the twelfthmonth(that is, the monthAdar).
Now in the reignof Ahasuerus,in the beginningof his reign,they wrotean accusationagainstthe inhabitantsof Judahand Jerusalem.
Now in the twelfthmonth(that is, the monthAdar),on the thirteenthdaywhenthe king'scommandand edictwere about to be executed,on the daywhenthe enemiesof the Jewshopedto gainthe masteryoverthem, it was turnedto the contrary so that the Jewsthemselvesgainedthe masteryoverthose who hatedthem.
