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


In Context

20 And Mordecai writeth these things, and sendeth letters unto all the Jews who are in all provinces of the king Ahasuerus, who are near and who are far off,

21 to 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,

22 as days on which the Jews have rested from their enemies, and the month that hath been turned to them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning to a good day, to make them days of banquet and of joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the needy.

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

24 because Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, adversary of all the Jews, had devised concerning the Jews to destroy them, and had caused to fall Pur — that is the lot — to crush them and to destroy them;

25 and in her coming in before the king, he said with the letter, 'Let his evil device that he devised against the Jews turn back upon his own head,' and they have hanged him and his sons on the tree,

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 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 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;