So the scribes were called in the first month, which is Nisan, on the twenty-third day of the same year. And [orders] were written concerning the Jews, whatever [the king had] commanded to the local governors and chiefs of the satraps, from India even to Ethiopia, a hundred and twenty-seven satraps, according to the several provinces, according to their dialects.

And after this the king's anger was pacified, and he no more made mention of Vashti, bearing in mind what she had said, and how he had condemned her.

And let the king appoint local governors in all the provinces of his kingdom, and let them select fair [and] chaste young women, [and bring them] to the city Susa, into the women's apartment, and let them be consigned to the king's eunuch, the keeper of the women. And let things for purification and other attendance be given [to them].

And they came to Jerusalem in the fifth month (this [was] the seventh year of the king).