³⁶ They also delivered the king’s orders^(A) to the royal satraps and to the governors of Trans-Euphrates,^(B) who then gave assistance to the people and to the house of God.^(C)

¹² Then on the thirteenth day of the first month the royal secretaries were summoned. They wrote out in the script of each province and in the language^(A) of each people all Haman’s orders to the king’s satraps, the governors of the various provinces and the nobles of the various peoples. These were written in the name of King Xerxes himself and sealed^(B) with his own ring.