Est 8:11 | CPDV | STEP | The king commanded them to bring together the Jews throughout each city, and to instruct them to join together, so as to make a stand for their lives, and to execute and destroy all their enemies, with their wives and children and their entire houses, and to plunder their spoil.

Esther 8:11

11 The king commanded them to bring together the Jews throughout each city, and to instruct them to join together, so as to make a stand for their lives, and to execute and destroy all their enemies, with their wives and children and their entire houses, and to plunder their spoil. ^{▼▼12:11The word “interficerent” refers to killing under authority, an execution rather than a murder.(Conte)}