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8 And Aman said to king Assuerus: There is a people dispersed through all the Provinces of thy kingdom, and separated one from an other, using new laws and ceremonies, moreover also contemning the king's ordinances: And thou knowest very well that it is not expedient for thy kingdom that they wax insolent by liberty.
9 If it please thee, decree that they may perish, & I will pay ten thousand talents to the cofferers of the treasure.
10 The king therefore took the ring that he used, from his hand, and gave it to Aman the son of Amadathi of the progeny of Agag, the enemy of the Jews,
11 and he said to him: The silver which thou doest promise, be it thine: but concerning the people do that which pleaseth thee.
12 And the king's scribes were called in the first month, Nisan, the thirteenth day of the same month: and it was written, as Aman had commanded, to all the king's lieutenants, and judges of the Provinces, and of diverse nations, as every nation could read, and hear according to the variety of languages, in the name of king Assuerus: and the letters signed with his ring,
13 were sent by the king's posts to all provinces, that they should kill and destroy all the Jews, from boy unto old man, children, and women, in one day, that is, in the thirteenth of the twelfth month, which is called Adar, and should spoil them of their goods.
14 And the content of the letters was this, that all Provinces might know, and prepare themselves against the day aforesaid.
15 The posts that were sent, made haste to fulfill the king's commandment. And immediately the edict hung in Susan, the king and Aman feasting, and all the Jews that were in the city weeping.
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