¹³ Esther replied, “If it pleases the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Susa to act tomorrow also in accordance with the decree of today; and let [the dead bodies of] Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”^{(A) 14} So the king commanded it to be done; the decree was given in Susa, and they hanged [the bodies of] Haman’s ten sons. ¹⁵ The Jews who were in Susa also gathered together on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and killed three hundred men in Susa, but they did not lay their hands on the plunder.