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


In Context

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

21 To stablish 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 wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto 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 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.

Esther 9:23 in Other Translations

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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

9:23And 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.

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;