Then the king's scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and an edict, according to all that Haman commanded, was written to the king'ssatraps and to the governors over all the provinces and to the officials of all the peoples,to every province in its own script and every people in its own language. It was writtenin the name of King Ahasuerusand sealed with the king's signet ring.