15 The Jews who were in Susa gathered also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and they killed 300 men in Susa, but they laid no hands on the plunder.

16 (A)Now the rest of the Jews who were in the king's provinces also (B)gathered to defend their lives, and got relief from their enemies and killed 75,000 of those who hated them, but they laid no hands on the plunder. 17 This was (C)on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested and made that a day of feasting and gladness.

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