13 Esther answered, “If it pleases the king, may the Jews who are in Susa also have tomorrow(A) to carry out today’s law,(B) and may the bodies of Haman’s ten sons(C) be hung on the gallows.”(D) 14 The king gave the orders for this to be done, so a law was announced in Susa, and they hung the bodies of Haman’s ten sons. 15 The Jews in Susa assembled again on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar(E) and killed three hundred men in Susa, but they did not seize any plunder.(F)

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