Verse 28
Esther 9:28
GOD'S WORD Translation
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and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor their memory perish from their offspring,
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/הַ/יָּמִ֣ים הָ֠/אֵלֶּה נִזְכָּרִ֨ים וְ/נַעֲשִׂ֜ים בְּ/כָל דּ֣וֹר וָ/ד֗וֹר מִשְׁפָּחָה֙ וּ/מִשְׁפָּחָ֔ה מְדִינָ֥ה וּ/מְדִינָ֖ה וְ/עִ֣יר וָ/עִ֑יר וִ/ימֵ֞י הַ/פּוּרִ֣ים הָ/אֵ֗לֶּה לֹ֤א יַֽעַבְרוּ֙ מִ/תּ֣וֹךְ הַ/יְּהוּדִ֔ים וְ/זִכְרָ֖/ם לֹא יָס֥וּף מִ/זַּרְעָֽ/ם
English Translation
And these days shall be remembered and kept in every generation and family, and family and state, and state and city, and the days of these Purim shall not pass from among the Jews, and their remembrance shall not perish from their descendants.
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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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13
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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