17 Therefore, you should understand to be null and void those letters that he administered under our name.
18 For this crime, before the gates of this city, that is, Susa, both he who devised it, and all his associates, hang on gallows: not we, but God repaying him as he deserved.
19 But this edict, which we now send, shall be displayed in all cities so that the Jews may be allowed to use their own laws.
20 You must be a support to them, so that they may be able to execute those, who themselves had prepared to kill them, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is called Adar.
21 For the almighty God has turned this day of grief and sorrow into joy for them.
22 Therefore, you too will keep this day, along with the other festival days, and celebrate it with all joy, so that it may be known even by future generations.
23 All those who faithfully obey the Persians deserve, for their fidelity, to receive a reward, but those who are traitors to their kingdom deserve to be destroyed for their crime.