²² He sent letters to all the royal provinces, to each province in its own script and to each ethnic group in its own language,^(A) that every man should be master of his own house and speak in the language of his own people.

⁹ On the twenty-third day of the third month^(A) (that is, the month Sivan),^[a] the royal scribes were summoned. Everything was written exactly as Mordecai^(B) ordered for the Jews, to the satraps,^(C) the governors, and the officials of the 127 provinces from India^[b] to Cush.^(D) The edict was written for each province in its own script, for each ethnic group in its own language,^(E) and to the Jews in their own script and language.