Est 3:13, 7:4, 8:11 | ESV | STEP | Letters were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces with instruction to destroy , to kill , and to annihilate all Jews , young and old , women and children , in one day , the thirteenth day of the twelfth month , which is the month of Adar , and to plunder their goods .

Esther 3:13

13 Letters were sent ^aby couriers to all the king’s provinces with instruction ^bto destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, ^cin one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, ^dand to plunder their goods.

Esther 7:4

4 ^eFor we have been sold, I and my people, ^fto be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king.”

Esther 8:11

11 saying that the king allowed the Jews who were in every city ^gto gather and defend their lives, ^hto destroy, to kill, and to annihilate any armed force of any people or province that might attack them, children and women included, ⁱand to plunder their goods,