EST 3:13

13 And the sefarim were sent by couriers into all the provinces of HaMelech, to make shmad, to kill, and to annihilate kol HaYehudim, both na'ar and zaken [(young and old)], little children and nashim, on yom echad [(one day)], even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions.