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 | | In those days, while Mordechai was sitting at the king's gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains of guardians of the threshold, became enraged and sought to send [their] hand against king Ahasuerus. |
 | | Letters were sent by courier to all the provinces of the king, to destroy, to slay and to exterminate all the Jews, from young to old, children and women, in one day, on the thirteenth of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their possessions. |
 | | The king arose in his wrath from the wine feast and went into the palace garden while Hamen remained to beg Queen Ester for his soul, for he saw that evil had been determined against him by the king. |
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