15 The Jews in Susa assembled again on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar(A) and killed three hundred men in Susa, but they did not seize any plunder.(B)

16 The rest of the Jews in the royal provinces assembled, defended themselves, and gained relief from their enemies. They killed seventy-five thousand[a] of those who hated them,(C) but they did not seize any plunder. 17 They fought on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar and rested on the fourteenth, and it became a day of feasting and rejoicing.

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Footnotes

  1. 9:16 Some LXX mss read 10,107; other LXX mss read 15,000

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