Sarah lived 127 years. ¹ 

Letters were sent ¹  to all the Jews in the hundred and twenty-seven provinces of the empire of Ahasuerus – words of true peace ²  –

¹ The following events happened ²  in the days of Ahasuerus. ³  (I am referring to ⁴  that Ahasuerus who used to rule over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces ⁵  extending all the way from India to Ethiopia. ⁶ )

Elkanah, Isshiah, Azarel, Joezer, and Jashobeam, who were Korahites,

Abram (that is, Abraham).

For this reason ¹  I love your commands more than gold, even purest gold.

The king’s scribes were quickly ¹  summoned – in the third month (that is, the month of Sivan), on the twenty-third day. ²  They wrote out ³  everything that Mordecai instructed to the Jews and to the satraps and the governors and the officials of the provinces all the way from India to Ethiopia ⁴  – a hundred and twenty-seven provinces in all – to each province in its own script and to each people in their own language, and to the Jews according to their own script and their own language.

By the twenty-third year of King Jehoash’s reign the priests had still not repaired the damage to the temple.

But you must return ¹  to your God, by maintaining love and justice, and by waiting ²  for your God to return to you. ³ 

Likewise ¹  the women are to dress ²  in suitable apparel, with modesty and self-control. ³  Their adornment must not be ⁴  with braided hair and gold or pearls or expensive clothing,

So since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us give thanks, and through this let us offer worship pleasing to God in devotion and awe.

Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Judah were 74,600.

Those of them who were numbered from the tribe of Issachar were 54,400.

My servant ¹  Moses is not like this; he is faithful ²  in all my house.

How the warriors have fallen! The weapons of war ¹  are destroyed!

and Joelah and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham from Gedor.

Sons born during one’s youth are like arrows in a warrior’s hand. ¹ 

Yes indeed, the man who fears the Lord will be blessed in this way. ¹ 

and that you might see ¹  your grandchildren. ²  May Israel experience peace! ³ 

The wicked are overthrown ¹  and perish, ²  but the righteous household ³  will stand.