<p class="poetry">then his flesh is restored<n id="1" /> like a youth&#8217;s;p> <p class="poetry">he returns to the days of his youthful vigor.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">If<n id="1" /> someone pampers his servant from youth,p> <p class="poetry">he will be a weakling<n id="2" /> in the end.p>

<p class="poetry">I am oppressed and have been on the verge of death since my youth.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I have been subjected to your horrors and am numb with pain.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Do not withhold discipline from a child;p> <p class="poetry">even if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.p> <p class="poetry">

Before they could lie down to sleep,<n id="1" /> all the men &#8211; both young and old, from every part of the city of Sodom &#8211; surrounded the house.<n id="2" />

They annihilated with the sword everything that breathed in the city,<n id="1" /> including men and women, young and old, as well as cattle, sheep, and donkeys.

Letters were sent by the runners to all the king&#8217;s provinces stating that<n id="1" /> they should destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews, from youth to elderly, both women and children,<n id="2" /> on a particular day, namely the thirteenth day<n id="3" /> of the twelfth month (that is, the month of Adar), and to loot and plunder their possessions.