So the king's recorders were called in the first month, on the thirteenth [day], and they wrote as Haman commanded to the captains and governors in every province, from India even to Ethiopia, to a hundred and twenty-seven provinces, and to the rulers of the nations according to their [many] languages, in the name of King Artaxerxes.

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 they gave the king's mandate to the king's lieutenants, and the governors beyond the river: and they honored the people and the house of God.

And he sent forth to gather the governors, and the captains, and the heads of provinces, chiefs, and princes, and those who were in authority, and all the rulers of districts, to come to the dedication of the image.

And it pleased Darius, and he set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, to be in all his kingdom;

and over them three governors (of whom one was Daniel) for the satraps to give account to them, that the king should not be troubled.

And everyone in the palace bowed down to him, for so the king had given orders to do; but Mordecai did not bow down to him.

[Thus] they spoke daily to him, but he hearkened not unto them; so they told it to Haman that Mordecai resisted the commands of the king; and Mordecai had shown to them that he was a Jew.

and took counsel to utterly destroy all the Jews who were under the rule of Artaxerxes.

And Esther said, If it seems good to you, and [if] I have found favor [in your sight], let an order be sent that the letters sent by Haman may be reversed, that were written for the destruction of the Jews, who are in your kingdom.