Accitisque scribis et librariis regis (erat autem tempus tertii mensis, qui appellatur Siban) vigesima et tertia die illius scriptæ sunt epistolæ, ut Mardochæus voluerat, ad Judæos, et ad principes, procuratoresque et judices, qui centum viginti septem provinciis ab India usque ad Æthiopiam præsidebant : provinciæ atque provinciæ, populo et populo juxta linguas et litteras suas, et Judæis, prout legere poterant et audire.
At once the royal scribes were summoned, and on the twenty-third day of the third month (the month of Sivan (note: Sivan is the third month of the Hebrew lunar calendar, usually occurring within the months of May and June.)), they recorded all of Mordecai’s orders to the Jews and to the satraps, governors, and princes of the 127 provinces from India to Cush (note: That is, to the upper Nile region)—writing to each province in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.