23The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them;
23The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them;
20 Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both near and far,
21 to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month Adar yearly,
22 as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy.
23 The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them;
24 because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast |Pur,| that is the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;
25 but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return on 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;
9:23So the Jews agreed to continue the celebration they had begun, doing what Mordecai had written to 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;
9:23And 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;