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Wherefore know ye that those letters which he sent in our name, are void and of no effect.
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For which crime both he himself that devised it, and all his kindred hang on gibbets, before the gates of this city Susan: not we, but God repaying him as he deserved.
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But this edict, which we now send, shall be published in all cities, that the Jews may freely follow their own laws.
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And you shall aid them that they may kill those who had prepared themselves to kill them, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is called Adar.
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For the almighty God hath turned this day of sadness and mourning into joy to them.