9 And the secretaries of the king were summonedg at that time, in the third month, which is in the month of Sivan on the twenty-third day, and an edict was written according to all that Mordecai commanded, to the Jews and to the governors and satraps and officials of the provinces from India to Cushh—one hundred and twenty-seven provincesi—each province according to its own script and to every people in their own ⌊language⌋,j and to the Jews in their own script and language. 10 And he wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and he sealed the letters with the king’s signet ring and sent themk by couriers on horses, riding on royal horses ⌊bred by⌋l racing mares.m 11 In them the king allowed the Jews who were in every city to assemble and ⌊defend their lives⌋,n to destroy and kill and annihilate any army of any people or province attacking them, including women and children, and to plunder their spoil, 12 in one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar. 13 A copy of the ⌊edict⌋o was to be given as law in each province to inform all the people, so that the Jews would be readyp on that day to avenge themselves from their enemies. 14 The mounted couriers on the royal horses went out without delay, urged by the king’s word. The law was given in the citadel of Susa.