21to establish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,


In Context

18 But the Jews that were at Shushan gathered themselves together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and joy.

19 Therefore the Jews of the villages that dwell in the country towns make the fourteenth of the month Adar a day of joy and feasting, and a good day, and on which they send portions one to another.

20 And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews near and far that were in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus,

21 to establish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,

22 as the days on which the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month that was turned to them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of 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 to them.

Esther 9:21 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:21To stablish [this] among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

9:21to have them celebrate annually the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

9:2121That they should receive the fourteenth and fifteenth day of the month Adar for holy days, and always at the return of the year should celebrate them with solemn honour:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

9:21to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:21to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:21To establish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:21to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month Adar yearly,

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:21to establish on them, to be keeping the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and the fifteenth day of it, in every year and year,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:21To establish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,