The Scriptures 1998

Esther 9:4-11 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

4. For Mordeḵai was great in the palace of the sovereign, and his report spread into all the provinces, for this man Mordeḵai became greater and greater.

5. And the Yehuḏim smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, with slaughter and destruction, and did what they pleased to those who hated them.

6. And in the citadel of Shushan the Yehuḏim slew and destroyed five hundred men.

7. And they slew Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,

8. and Poratha, and Aḏalya, and Ariḏatha,

9. and Parmashta, and Arisai, and Ariḏai, and Wayezatha,

10. the ten sons of Haman son of Hammeḏatha, the enemy of the Yehuḏim. But they did not lay a hand on the plunder.

11. On that day the number of those who were slain in the citadel of Shushan came before the sovereign.