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Esther 3:7, 13

Esther 3:7 CSB

In the first month, the month of Nisan, in King Ahasuerus’s twelfth year,  the pur  — that is, the lot — was cast before Haman for each day in each month, and it fell on the twelfth month,  the month Adar.

Esther 3:13 CSB

Letters were sent by couriers  to each of the royal provinces telling the officials to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jewish people — young and old, women and children — and plunder their possessions on a single day,  the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.