Verse 23
Esther 9:23
American Standard Version
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And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/קִבֵּל֙ הַ/יְּהוּדִ֔ים אֵ֥ת אֲשֶׁר הֵחֵ֖לּוּ לַ/עֲשׂ֑וֹת וְ/אֵ֛ת אֲשֶׁר כָּתַ֥ב מָרְדֳּכַ֖י אֲלֵי/הֶֽם
English Translation
And the Jews accepted what they had begun to do and what Mordecai had written to them.
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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 same, 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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And all the princes of the provinces, and the satraps, and the governors, and they that did the king...
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For Mordecai was great in the king`s house, and his fame went forth throughout all the provinces; fo...
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And the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destructio...
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And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.
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And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,
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and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
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and Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vaizatha,
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the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jew`s enemy, slew they; but on the spoil they laid...
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On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king.
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And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shush...
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Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews that are in Shushan to do to-...
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And the king commanded it so to be done: and a decree was given out in Shushan; and they hanged Hama...
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And the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the mon...
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And the other Jews that were in the king`s provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for the...
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[This was done] on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same they...
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But the Jews that were in Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth [day] thereof, and on the fou...
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Therefore do the Jews of the villages, that dwell in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of...
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And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces o...
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to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of...
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as the days wherein the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them f...
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And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto 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 [the matter] came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he...
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Wherefore they called these days Purim, after the name of Pur. Therefore because of all the words of...
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the Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves u...
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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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And he sent letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of A...
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to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther th...
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And the commandment of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.
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