וַיֹּ֨אמֶר הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ לְאֶסְתֵּ֣ר הַמַּלְכָּ֗ה בְּשׁוּשַׁ֣ן הַבִּירָ֡ה הָרְגוּ֩ הַיְּהוּדִ֨ים וְאַבֵּ֜ד חֲמֵ֧שׁ מֵא֣וֹת אִ֗ישׁ וְאֵת֙ עֲשֶׂ֣רֶת בְּנֵֽי־הָמָ֔ן בִּשְׁאָ֛ר מְדִינ֥וֹת הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ מֶ֣ה עָשׂ֑וּ וּמַה־שְּׁאֵֽלָתֵךְ֙ וְיִנָּ֣תֵֽן לָ֔ךְ וּמַה־בַּקָּשָׁתֵ֥ךְ ע֖וֹד וְתֵעָֽשׂ׃
Lalu raja berkata kepada Ratu Ester, “Di benteng Susan, orang Yahudi telah membunuh dan membinasakan lima ratus orang, juga kesepuluh anak laki-laki Haman. Apa lagi yang telah mereka lakukan di daerah-daerah kerajaan lainnya! Sekarang, apa permintaanmu? Itu akan diberikan kepadamu. Apa lagi permohonanmu? Itu akan dilaksanakan.”
Tze'enah Ure'enah
“What have they done in the other lands of the king” [9:12]. Ahasuerus said to Esther: the Jews have killed five hundred men and Haman’s children. They stopped in the evening since they feared me. The Jews have certainly killed many more in other cities and they have even killed at night. Then Esther said: I ask you my lord king, because the Jews feared you and stopped early, therefore allow the Jews to kill the Amalekites for another day. The king ordered and gave them a letter that they should kill as they pleased. The Jews gathered on the fourteenth day of Adar and killed three hundred men and they did not touch the money of the Amalekites. In other cities, the Jews killed seventy thou- sand-five hundred Amalekites.45Esther 9:16 says, seventy-five thousand. The Jews gathered on the thirteenth and the fourteenth and made a holiday to drink and feast.