1 Verily I say unto you, concerning your brethren who have been afflicted, and ^apersecuted, and ^bcast out from the land of their inheritance—

  13 And the ^aletters were sent by posts into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to ^bkill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in ^cone day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.