So two {or} three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which {is} not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish. {present: Heb. found}

Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month, that {is}, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth {day} thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which {are} from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every province according to the writing thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.

For the Jews that {were} in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.

The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.

The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.

The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and three.

The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and three.

The children of Hashum, two hundred twenty and three.

The children of Bethlehem, an hundred twenty and three.

The children of Kirjatharim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty and three.

The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty and three.

The children of Harim, three hundred and twenty.

The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.

The children of Senaah, three thousand and six hundred and thirty.

The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred seventy and three.

All the Nethinims, and the children of Solomon's servants, {were} three hundred ninety and two.

The whole congregation together {was} forty and two thousand three hundred {and} threescore,

Beside their servants and their maids, of whom {there were} seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and {there were} among them two hundred singing men and singing women.

They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams of gold, and five thousand pound of silver, and one hundred priests' garments.