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sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
23
And the Jews undertook to do as they had
begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;
24
Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the
Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur,
that
is,
the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;
25
But when
Esther
came before the king,
he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return
upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
26
Wherefore they
called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and
of that
which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them,
27
The Jews ordained,
and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as
it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to
their
appointed
time every year;
28
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 the memorial of them perish from their seed.
29
Then Esther the
queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this
second letter of Purim.
30
And he sent the letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred twenty and seven
provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus,
with
words of peace and truth,
31
To confirm these days
of Purim in their times
appointed,
according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined
them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and
their cry.
32
And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the
book.
CHAPTER 10
And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and
upon
the isles of the sea.
2
And all the
acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the
king advanced him,
are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and
Persia?
3
For Mordecai the Jew
was
next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and
accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to
all his seed.
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