Then Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus at his royal residence in the tenth<n id="1" /> month (that is, the month of Tebeth) in the seventh<n id="2" /> year of his reign.

<p class="bodytext">In the first month (that is, the month of Nisan), in the twelfth year<n id="1" /> of King Ahasuerus&#8217; reign, <i>puri><n id="2" /> (that is, the lot) was cast before Haman in order to determine a day and a month.<n id="3" /> It turned out to be the twelfth month (that is, the month of Adar).<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">So the royal scribes<n id="1" /> were summoned in the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month. Everything Haman commanded was written to the king&#8217;s satraps<n id="2" /> and governors who were in every province and to the officials of every people, province by province according to its script and people by people according to its language. In the name of King Ahasuerus it was written and sealed with the king&#8217;s signet ring.

<p class="bodytext">The king&#8217;s scribes were quickly<n id="1" /> summoned &#8211; in the third month (that is, the month of Sivan), on the twenty-third day.<n id="2" /> They wrote out<n id="3" /> everything that Mordecai instructed to the Jews and to the satraps and the governors and the officials of the provinces all the way from India to Ethiopia<n id="4" /> &#8211; a hundred and twenty-seven provinces in all &#8211; to each province in its own script and to each people in their own language, and to the Jews according to their own script and their own language.