>Among all the tribes in the world there is scattered a certain hostile people who have laws contrary to those of every nation and continually disregard the ordinances of the kings, so that the unifying of the kingdom that we honorably intend cannot be brought about. We understand that this nation, and it alone, stands constantly in opposition to all, perversely following a strange manner of life and laws and is ill disposed to our government, doing all the harm they can so that our kingdom may not attain stability.>Therefore we have decreed that those indicated to you shall all, with their wives and children, be utterly destroyed by the sword of their enemies, without pity or mercy, so that those who have long been and are now hostile may in one day go down in violence to Hades and leave our government completely secure and untroubled hereafter.
