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 So the poſts that rode vpon mules and camels went out, being haſtened, and preſſed on by the kings commandement, and the decree was giuen at Shuſhan the palace.

¶ And Mordecai went out from the preſence of the king, in royall apparrell, of ‖ blew and white, and with a great crowne of gold, and with a garment of fine linnen, and purple, and the citie of Shuſhan reioyced, and was glad:

The Iewes had light and gladneſſe, and ioy and honour.

And in euery prouince, and in euery city, whitherſoeuer the kings commandement, and his decree came, the Iewes had ioy and gladnes, a feaſt and a good day: And many of the people of the land became Iewes; for the feare of the Iewes fell vpon them.

Ow in the twelfth month (that is the moneth Adar) of the thirteenth day of the ſame, when the Kings commandement and his decree drew neere to bee put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Iewes hoped to haue power ouer them: (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Iewes had rule ouer them that hated them.)

The Iewes gathered themſelues together in their cities, throughout all the prouinces of the king Ahaſuerus, to lay hand on ſuch as ſought their hurt, and no man could withſtand them: for the feare of them fell vpon all people.

And all the rulers of the prouinces, and the Lieutenants, and the deputies, and † officers of the king, helped the Iewes: becauſe the feare of Mordecai fell vpon them.

For Mordecai was great in the kings houſe, and his fame went out, throughout all the prouinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.

Thus the Iewes ſmote all their enemies with the ſtroke of the ſword, and ſlaughter, and deſtruction, and did † what they would vnto thoſe that hated them.

And in Shuſhan the palace the Iewes ſlew and deſtroyed fiue hundred men:

And Parſhandatha, and Dalphon, and Aſpatha,

And Pratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,

And Parmaſhta, and Ariſai, and Aridai, and Vaiesatha,

The ten ſonnes of Haman the ſonne of Hammedatha, the enemie of the Iewes, ſlew they, but on the ſpoile laid they not their hand.

On that day, the number of thoſe that were ſlaine in Shuſhan the palace, † was brought before the king.

¶ And the king ſaid vnto Eſther the Queene; The Iewes haue ſlaine and deſtroyed fiue hundred men in Shuſhan the palace, ⁊ the ten ſonnes of Haman; what haue they done in the reſt of the kings prouinces? now what is thy petition? and it ſhalbe granted thee: or what is thy requeſt further? and it ſhall be done.

Then ſaid Eſther, If it pleaſe the king, Let it bee granted to the Iewes which are in Shuſhan, to doe to morow alſo, according vnto this dayes decree, and † let Hamans ten ſonnes be hanged vpon the gallous.

And the king commanded it ſo to be done; and the decree was giuen at Shuſhan, and they hanged Hamans ten ſonnes.

For the Iewes that were in Shuſhan, gathered themſelues together on the fourteenth day alſo of the moneth Adar, and ſlewe three hundred men at Shuſhan: but on the pray they laid not their hand.

But the other Iewes that were in the kings prouinces, gathered themſelues together, ⁊ ſtood for their liues, and had reſt from their enemies, and ſlew of their foes ſeuenty and fiue thouſand, but they laid not their handes on the pray.

On the thirteenth day of the moneth Adar, and on the fourteenth day † of the ſame, reſted they, and made it a day of feaſting and gladnes.

But the Iewes that were at Shuſhan, aſſembled together on the thirteenth day therof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the ſame,