And the business was hastened, and [that] at Susa. And the king and Haman began to drink, but the city was troubled.

And Mordecai wrote these things in a book, and sent them to the Jews, as many as were in the kingdom of Artaxerxes, both them that were near and them that were afar off,

And they were written by order of the king, and sealed with his ring, and they sent the letters by couriers.