Verse 32
Esther 9:32
World English Bible, British Edition
32
The commandment of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was
written in the book.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וּ/מַאֲמַ֣ר אֶסְתֵּ֔ר קִיַּ֕ם דִּבְרֵ֥י הַ/פֻּרִ֖ים הָ/אֵ֑לֶּה וְ/נִכְתָּ֖ב בַּ/סֵּֽפֶר
English Translation
And the decree of Esther confirmed these words of Purim and was written in the book.
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Chapter 9 Context
1
Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day
of the month, when the king...
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the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the
provinces of the King Ahasu...
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3
All the princes of the provinces, the local governors, the governors,
and those who did the king’s b...
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4
For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out throughout
all the provinces, for...
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5
The Jews struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with
slaughter and destruction,...
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6
In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men.
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7
They killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,
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Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
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9
Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha,
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10
the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy, but they
didn’t lay their hand on the...
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11
On that day, the number of those who were slain in the citadel
of Susa was brought before the king.
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12
The king said to Esther the queen, “The Jews have slain and destroyed
five hundred men in the citade...
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13
Then Esther said, “If it pleases the king, let it be granted
to the Jews who are in Susa to do tomor...
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14
The king commanded this to be done. A decree was given out in
Susa; and they hanged Haman’s ten sons...
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15
The Jews who were in Susa gathered themselves together on the fourteenth
day also of the month Adar,...
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The other Jews who were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves
together, defended their lives,...
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17
This was done on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth
day of that month they...
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18
But the Jews who were in Susa assembled together on the thirteenth
and on the fourteenth days of the...
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19
Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns,
make the fourteenth day of the m...
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20
Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews
who were in all the provinces of the K...
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21
to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days
of the month Adar yearly,
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as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month
which was turned to them fr...
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23
The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written
to them,
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24
because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the
Jews, had plotted against the...
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25
but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that
his wicked plan, which he had p...
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26
Therefore they called these days “Purim”, from the word “Pur.” Therefore
because of all the words of...
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the Jews established and imposed on themselves, on their descendants,
and on all those who joined th...
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and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation,
every family, every p...
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Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai
the Jew wrote with all authority to con...
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30
He sent letters to all the Jews in the hundred and twenty-seven provinces
of the kingdom of Ahasueru...
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31
to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, as Mordecai
the Jew and Esther the queen ha...
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32
The commandment of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was
written in the book.