Esther 8:11
New King James Version
11 By these letters the king permitted the Jews who were in every city to (A)gather together and protect their lives—to (B)destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province that would assault them, both little children and women, and to plunder their possessions,
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Esther 9:15-18
New King James Version
15 And the Jews who were in [a]Shushan (A)gathered together again on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and killed three hundred men at Shushan; (B)but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
16 The remainder of the Jews in the king’s provinces (C)gathered together and protected their lives, had rest from their enemies, and killed seventy-five thousand of their enemies; (D)but they did not lay a hand on the plunder. 17 This was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar. And on the fourteenth of [b]the month they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
The Feast of Purim
18 But the Jews who were at [c]Shushan assembled together (E)on the thirteenth day, as well as on the fourteenth; and on the fifteenth of [d]the month they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
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- Esther 9:15 Or Susa
- Esther 9:17 Lit. it
- Esther 9:18 Or Susa
- Esther 9:18 Lit. it
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