23So the Jews agreed to continue the celebration they had begun, doing what Mordecai had written to them.
23So the Jews agreed to continue the celebration they had begun, doing what Mordecai had written to them.
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.
24 For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the pur (that is, the lot) for their ruin and destruction.
25 But when the plot came to the king's attention, he issued written orders that the evil scheme Haman had devised against the Jews should come back onto his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
9:23And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;
9:23And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;
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.
9:23And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;
9:23And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written to them.
9:23And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written to them;
9:23The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them;
9:23And the Jews have received that which they had begun to do, and that which Mordecai hath written unto them,
9:23And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written to them;