以斯帖記 3:13

交給驛卒傳到王的各省，吩咐將猶大人，無論老少婦女孩子，在一日之間，十二月，就是亞達月十三日，全然剪除，殺戮滅絕，並奪他們的財為掠物。

jiāo gěi yì zú chuán dào wáng de gè shěng ， fēn fù jiāng yóu dà rén ， wú lùn lǎo shào fù nǚ hái zi ， zài yí rì zhī jiān ， shí èr yuè ， jiù shì yà dá yuè shí sān rì ， quán rán jiǎn chú ， shā lù miè jué ， bìng duó tā men de cái wèi lüè wù 。

Letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions.