The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Esther 9:13 (ASV)

And the king said unto Esther the queen, the Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is thy petition? And it shall be granted thee: or what is thy request further? And it shall be done.

 

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Esther 9:14 (King James 2000 Bible)
And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.

 

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Esther 9:15 (RSV)

The Jews who were in Susa gathered also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and they slew three hundred men in Susa; but they laid no hands on the plunder.

 

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Esther 9:16 (RSV)

Now the other Jews who were in the king’s provinces also gathered to defend their lives, and got relief from their enemies, and slew seventy-five thousand of those who hated them; but they laid no hands on the plunder.

 

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Esther 9:17 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
on the thirteenth day of the month Adar, and on the fourteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

 

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Esther 9:18 (RSV)

But the Jews who were in Susa gathered on the thirteenth day and on the fourteenth, and rested on the fifteenth day, making that a day of feasting and gladness.

 

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Esther 9:19 (RSV)

Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the open towns, hold the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day for gladness and feasting and holiday-making, and a day on which they send choice portions to one another.

 

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Esther 9:20 (NASB)
Then Mordecai recorded these events, and he sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far,

 

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Esther 9:21 (RSV)

enjoining them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fifteenth day of the same, year by year,

 

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Esther 9:22 (RSV)

as the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending choice portions to one another and gifts to the poor.

 

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Esther 9:23 (KJV)
And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;

 

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Esther 9:24 (KJV)

Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;

 

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Esther 9:25 (ISV)

But when Esther came before the king, he ordered through a letter that the evil plot that Haman had devised against the Jewish people be rescinded, and that he and his sons be hanged on poles.

 

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Esther 9:26 (NASB)
Therefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. And because of the instructions in this letter, both what they had seen in this regard and what had happened to them,

 

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Esther 9:27 (AKJV)
The Jews ordained, and took on them, and on their seed, and on all such as joined themselves to them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;

 

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Esther 9:28 (ISV)

These days should be remembered and observed in every generation by each family in every province and town. These days of Purim should not be neglected by the Jewish people, and that they should not be forgotten by their descendants.

 

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Esther 9:29 (ISV)

Queen Esther, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew wrote with full authority confirming this second letter about Purim.

 

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Esther 9:30 (KJV)
And he sent the letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth,

 

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Esther 9:31 (ISV)

establishing these days of Purim at the prescribed time, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established, and just as the Jewish people had established for themselves and for their descendants. The letter included instructions for their fasting and lamentations.

 

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Esther 9:32 (ISV)

The order of Esther established these instructions for Purim, and it was officially recorded.