And letters, asealed with the ring of the king, were sent by the couriers of the king to all his provinces, that they should slay, and do away, or destroy, all Jews, from a child to an eld [or old] man, little children and women, in one day, that is, in the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, that is called Adar, or March; and that they should take away the goods of the Jews.