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Then they petitioned the king, asking for dismissal to their homes.
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So their registration was carried out from the twenty-fifth of Pachon to the fourth of Epeiph, for forty days; and their destruction was set for the fifth to the seventh of Epeiph, the three days
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on which the Lord of all most gloriously revealed his mercy and rescued them all together and unharmed.
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Then they feasted, provided with everything by the king, until the fourteenth day, on which also they made the petition for their dismissal.
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The king granted their request at once and wrote the following letter for them to the generals in the cities, magnanimously expressing his concern:
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