Verse 8
Esther 9:8
GOD'S WORD Translation
8
Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/אֵ֧ת פּוֹרָ֛תָא וְ/אֵ֥ת אֲדַלְיָ֖א וְ/אֵ֥ת אֲרִידָֽתָא
English Translation
And / the potah and / the adalyah and / the aridatah.
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Chapter 9 Context
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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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All the princes of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and those who did the king’s business...
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For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces; for...
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The Jews struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction,...
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In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men.
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They killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,
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Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
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Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha,
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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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On that day, the number of those who were slain in the citadel of Susa was brought before the king.
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The king said to Esther the queen, “The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in the citade...
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Then Esther said, “If it pleases the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Shushan to do to...
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The king commanded this to be done. A decree was given out in Shushan; and they hanged Haman’s ten s...
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The Jews who were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Ad...
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The other Jews who were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together, defended their lives,...
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This was done on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of that month they...
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But the Jews who were in Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth days of...
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Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the m...
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Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the k...
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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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The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them;
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because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the...
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but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked plan, which he had p...
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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, and on their descendants, and on all those who join...
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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 co...
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He sent letters to all the Jews, to the hundred twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus,...
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to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen ha...
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The commandment of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.
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