Verse 31
Esther 9:31
Bible in Basic English
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Giving the force of law to these days of Purim at their fixed times, as they had been ordered by Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen, and in keeping with the rules they had made for themselves and their seed, in connection with their time of going without food and their cry for help.
Original Language Text
hebrew
לְ/קַיֵּ֡ם אֵת יְמֵי֩ הַ/פֻּרִ֨ים הָ/אֵ֜לֶּה בִּ/זְמַנֵּי/הֶ֗ם כַּ/אֲשֶׁר֩ קִיַּ֨ם עֲלֵי/הֶ֜ם מָרְדֳּכַ֤י הַ/יְּהוּדִי֙ וְ/אֶסְתֵּ֣ר הַ/מַּלְכָּ֔ה וְ/כַ/אֲשֶׁ֛ר קִיְּמ֥וּ עַל נַפְשָׁ֖/ם וְ/עַל זַרְעָ֑/ם דִּבְרֵ֥י הַ/צֹּמ֖וֹת וְ/זַעֲקָתָֽ/ם
English Translation
To establish these days of Purim in their times, as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther established for them, and as they confirmed upon themselves and their descendants, the words of the fasts and their crying out.
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Chapter 9 Context
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On that day, the Jews came together in their towns through all the divisions of the kingdom of Ahasu...
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And all the chiefs and the captains and the rulers and those who did the king's business gave suppor...
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For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and word of him went out through every part of the kingd...
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So the Jews overcame all their attackers with the sword and with death and destruction, and did to t...
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And in Shushan the Jews put to death five hundred men.
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They put to death 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 hater of the Jews; but they put not a hand on any o...
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On that day the number of those who had been put to death in the town of Shushan was given to the ki...
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And the king said to Esther the queen, The Jews have put five hundred men to death in Shushan, as we...
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Then Esther said, If it is the king's pleasure, let authority be given to the Jews in Shushan to do...
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And the king said that this was to be done, and the order was given out in Shushan, and the hanging...
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For the Jews who were in Shushan came together again on the fourteenth day of the month Adar and put...
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And the other Jews in every division of the kingdom came together, fighting for their lives, and got...
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This they did on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same month t...
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But the Jews in Shushan came together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth day of the month; and...
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So the Jews of the country places living in unwalled towns make the fourteenth day of the month Adar...
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And Mordecai sent letters to all the Jews in every division of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, near and fa...
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Ordering them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and the fifteenth day of the same month,...
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As days on which the Jews had rest from their haters, and the month which for them was turned from s...
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And the Jews gave their word to go on as they had been doing and as Mordecai had given them orders i...
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Because Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the hater of all the Jews, had made designs for th...
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But when the business was put before the king, he gave orders by letters that the evil design which...
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So these days were named Purim, after the name of Pur. And so, because of the words of this letter,...
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The Jews made a rule and gave an undertaking, causing their seed and all those who were joined to th...
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And that those days were to be kept in memory through every generation and every family, in every di...
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Then Esther the queen, daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, sent a second letter giving the fo...
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And he sent letters to all the Jews in the hundred and twenty-seven divisions of the kingdom of Ahas...
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Giving the force of law to these days of Purim at their fixed times, as they had been ordered by Mor...
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The order given by Esther gave the force of law to the rules about the Purim; and it was recorded in...
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