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,

¹⁰ They will not take wood from the field nor cut down any from the forests, because they will make fires with the weapons; ^(A)and they will plunder those who plundered them, and pillage those who pillaged them,” says the Lord God.

The Day of the Lord^(A)