What does Esther 3:13 mean?

Messengers carried letters to every province, ordering people to destroy, kill, and wipe out all Jews—young and old, children and women—on a single day, the thirteenth of the twelfth month, Adar, and to take everything they owned. Esther 3:13 - Modern Text Bible

(The decree called for the total destruction of the Jewish people and the seizure of their property.)