Rashi, on Esth 8:11

“And the king gave orders to them, to speak to the Jews in every city, and to command them to gather themselves together, and to stand for their lives, and to kill and destroy all their enemies with their wives and children and all their houses, and to take their spoil.”

“and to take their spoils for plunder as was written in the first [letters], but they”—upon the spoils they did not lay their hands,” for they showed everyone that it was not done for the sake of money.”

Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.