17:009:011 On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the
           palace was brought before the king.

17:009:012 And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain
           and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the
           ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the
           king’s provinces? now what is thy petition? and it shall be
           granted thee:  or what is thy request further? and it shall be
           done.

17:009:013 Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to
           the Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also according
           unto this day’s decree, and let Haman’s ten sons be hanged
           upon the gallows.

17:009:014 And the king commanded it so to be done:  and the decree was
           given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman’s ten sons.

17:009:015 For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together
           on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three
           hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their
           hand.

17:009:016 But the other Jews that were in the king’s provinces gathered
           themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest
           from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five
           thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey,

17:009:017 On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth
           day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and
           gladness.

17:009:018 But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the
           thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on
           the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day
           of feasting and gladness.

17:009:019 Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled
           towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of
           gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions
           one to another.

17:009:020 And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the
           Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus,
           both nigh and far,

17:009:021 To stablish this among them, that they should keep the
           fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the
           same, yearly,

17:009:022 As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and
           the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and
           from mourning into a good day:  that they should make them days
           of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another,
           and gifts to the poor.

17:009:023 And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as
           Mordecai had written unto them;