13 Dispatches were sent by couriers to all the king's provinces with the order to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews - young and old, women and children - on a single day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.
13 Mapapila ma rhumeriwe hi varhumiwa+ ma ya emigangeni hinkwayo leyi nga ehansi ka vulawuri bya hosi, leswaku Vayuda hinkwavo va lovisiwa, va dlayiwa ni ku herisiwa, majaha ni lava va kuleke, lavatsongo ni vavasati, hi siku rin'we,+ hi siku ra vu-13 ra n'hweti ya vu-12, hileswaku, hi n'hweti ya Adhara,+ nileswaku ku phangiwa swilo swa vona.+