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For Mordecai was powerful in the king's house, and his fame spread throughout all the provinces as the man Mordecai grew more and more powerful.
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So the Jews struck down all their enemies with the sword, slaughtering, and destroying them, and did as they pleased to those who hated them.
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In the citadel of Susa the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred people.
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They killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,
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Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
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Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, Vaizatha,
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the ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews; but they did not touch the plunder.
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That very day the number of those killed in the citadel of Susa was reported to the king.
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The king said to Queen Esther, "In the citadel of Susa the Jews have killed five hundred people and also the ten sons of Haman. What have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? Now what is your petition? It shall be granted you. And what further is your request? It shall be fulfilled."
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Esther said, "If it pleases the king, let the Jews who are in Susa be allowed tomorrow also to do according to this day's edict, and let the ten sons of Haman be hanged on the gallows."
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So the king commanded this to be done; a decree was issued in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hanged.