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


In Context

18 The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and fourteenth, and then on the fifteenth they rested and made it a day of feasting and joy.

19 That is why rural Jews-those living in villages-observe the fourteenth of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting, a day for giving presents to each other.

20 Mordecai recorded these events, and he sent letters to all the Jews throughout the provinces of King Xerxes, near and far,

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

22 as the time when the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month when their sorrow was turned into joy and their mourning into a day of celebration. He wrote them to observe the days as days of feasting and joy and giving presents of food to one another and gifts to the poor.

23 So the Jews agreed to continue the celebration they had begun, doing what 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 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 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,