Est 3:13 | HCSB | STEP | Letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces telling the officials to destroy , kill , and annihilate all the Jewish people – young and old , women and children – and plunder their possessions on a single day , the thirteenth day of Adar , the twelfth month .

Esther 3:13

13 Letters were sent by couriers ^a to each of the royal provinces telling the officials to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jewish people – young and old, women and children – and plunder their possessions on a single day, ^b the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month. ^{▼▼LXX adds the text of Ahasuerus’s letter here.}