⁷ Instead, you will chase your enemies, and they will fall before you by the sword; ^8 (A)five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand; and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.

^11 [a]In the letters the king granted the Jews who were in each and every city the right ^(A)to assemble and to defend their lives, ^(B)to destroy, kill, and eliminate the entire army of any people or province which was going to attack them, including children and women, and ^(C)to plunder their spoils,