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:


In Context

18 But they that were killing in the city of Susan, were employed in the slaughter on the thirteenth and fourteenth day of the same month: and on the fifteenth day they rested. And therefore they appointed that day to be a holy day of feasting and gladness.

19 But those Jews that dwelt in towns not walled and in villages, appointed the fourteenth day of the month Adar for banquets and gladness, so as to rejoice on that day, and send one another portions of their banquets and meats.

20 And Mardochai wrote all these things, and sent them comprised in letters to the Jews that abode in all the king's provinces, both those that lay near and those afar off,

21 21That 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:

22 Because on those days the Jews revenged themselves of their enemies, and their mourning and sorrow were turned into mirth and joy, and that these should be days of feasting and gladness, in which they should send one to another portions of meats; and should give gifts to the poor.

23 And the Jews undertook to observe with solemnity all they had begun to do at that time, which Mardochai by letters had commanded to be done.

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 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 Darby 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 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,