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Esther 9:23

American Standard Version

And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;

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Esther 9:23 in other translations

The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them;

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Esther 9:23 in context

  1. 21to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
  2. 22as the days wherein the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
  3. 23And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;
  4. 24because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;
  5. 25but when the matter came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.