Est 8:9 | HCSB | STEP | On the twenty-third day of the third month (that is , the month Sivan ), the royal scribes were summoned . Everything was written exactly as Mordecai ordered for the Jews , to the satraps , the governors , and the officials of the 127 provinces from India to Cush . The edict was written for each province in its own script , for each ethnic group in its own language , and to the Jews in their own script and language .

Esther 8:9

9 On the twenty-third day of the third month ^a (that is, the month Sivan), ^{▼▼= May-June} the royal scribes were summoned. Everything was written exactly as Mordecai ^c ordered for the Jews, to the satraps, ^d the governors, and the officials of the 127 provinces from India ^{▼▼= modern Pakistan} to ^{▼▼Cush/ Cushite: The lands of the Nile in southern Egypt, including Nubia and Northern Sudan; the people who lived in that region}Cush. ^g The edict was written for each province in its own script, for each ethnic group in its own language, ^h and to the Jews in their own script and language.