Esther 8:10-12

New King James Version

^10 (A)And he wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, sealed it with the king’s signet ring, and sent letters by couriers on horseback, riding on royal horses ^[a]bred from swift steeds.

¹¹ By these letters the king permitted the Jews who were in every city to ^(B)gather together and protect their lives—to ^(C)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, ^12 (D)on one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of ^[b]Adar.