10. And the sovereign took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, son of Hammeḏatha the Ag̅ag̅ite, the enemy of the Yehuḏim.
11. And the sovereign said to Haman, “The silver and the people are given to you, to do with them as seems good to you.”
12. And the sovereign’s scribes were called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and a decree was written according to all that Haman commanded – to the viceroys of the sovereign, and to the governors who were over each province, and to the officials of all people, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of Sovereign Aḥashwĕrosh, and sealed with the sovereign’s signet ring.
13. And the letters were sent by the runners into all the sovereign’s provinces, to cut off, to slay, and to destroy all the Yehuḏim, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Aḏar, and to plunder their possessions.