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“ Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand.
17:009:011 On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the
palace was brought before the king.
17:009:012 And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? now what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what is thy request further? and it shall be done. ”

“ Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat
above all the princes that were with him.
17:003:002 And all the king's servants, that were in the king's gate,
bowed, and reverenced Haman: for the king had so commanded
concerning him. ”

“ Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus,
both nigh and far,
17:009:021 To stablish this among them, that they should keep the
fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the
same, yearly,
17:009:022 As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
17:009:023 And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them ”