16. and are sons of the highest and greatest and ever-living God, by whose kindness the kingdom was handed down both to our fathers and to us, and is cared for even unto this day.
17. Therefore, you should understand to be null and void those letters that he administered under our name.
18. For this crime, before the gates of this city, that is, Susa, both he who devised it, and all his associates, hang on gallows: not we, but God repaying him as he deserved.
19. But this edict, which we now send, shall be displayed in all cities so that the Jews may be allowed to use their own laws.