23And 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.


In Context

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.

24 For Aman, the son of Amadathi of the race of Agag, the enemy and adversary of the Jews, had devised evil against them, to kill them and destroy them: and had cast Phur, that is, the lot.

25 And afterwards Esther went in to the king, beseeching him that his endeavours might be made void by the king's letters: and the evil that he had intended against the Jews, might return upon his own head. And so both he and his sons were hanged upon gibbets.

Esther 9:23 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:23And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

9:23So the Jews agreed to continue the celebration they had begun, doing what Mordecai had written to them.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

9:23And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

9:23And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:23And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written to them.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:23And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written to them;

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

9:23The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

9:23And the Jews have received that which they had begun to do, and that which Mordecai hath written unto them,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

9:23And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written to them;