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ES-9:1 Now in the twelfth month, that [is], the month Adar, on
the thirteenth day
of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew
near to be put in
execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have
power over them,
(though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule
over them that hated
them;)
ES-9:2 The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities
throughout all the
provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought
their hurt: and no
man could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon all
people.
ES-9:3 And all the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants,
and the deputies,
and officers of the king, helped the Jews; because the fear of
Mordecai fell upon
them.
ES-9:4 For Mordecai [was] great in the king's house, and his
fame went out
throughout all the provinces: for this man Mordecai waxed
greater and greater.
ES-9:5 Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of
the sword, and
slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those
that hated them.
ES-9:6 And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed
five hundred men.
ES-9:7 And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,
ES-9:8 And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
ES-9:9 And Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha,
ES-9:10 The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy
of the Jews, slew
they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand.
ES-9:11 On that day the number of those that were slain in
Shushan the palace was
brought before the king.
ES-9:12 And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have
slain and destroyed
five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of
Haman; what have they
done in the rest of the king's provinces? now what [is] thy
petition? and it shall
be granted thee: or what [is] thy request further? and it shall
be done.
ES-9:13 Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be
granted to the Jews
which [are] in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto this
day's decree, and
let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.
ES-9:14 And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree
was given at
Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.
ES-9:15 For the Jews that [were] in Shushan gathered themselves
together on the
fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred
men at Shushan; but on
the prey they laid not their hand.
ES-9:16 But the other Jews that [were] in the king's provinces
gathered themselves
together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their
enemies, and slew of
their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their
hands on the prey,
ES-9:17 On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the
fourteenth day of the
same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
ES-9:18 But the Jews that [were] at Shushan assembled together
on the thirteenth
[day] thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the
fifteenth [day] of the same
they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
ES-9:19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the
unwalled towns, made
the fourteenth day of the month Adar [a day of] gladness and
feasting, and a good
day, and of sending portions one to another.
ES-9:20 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,
ES-9:21 To stablish [this] among them, that they should keep
the fourteenth day of
the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
ES-9:22 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.
ES-9:23 And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as
Mordecai had written
unto them;
ES-9:24 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;
ES-9:25 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.
ES-9:26 Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name
of Pur. Therefore for
all the words of this letter, and [of that] which they had seen
concerning this
matter, and which had come unto them,
ES-9:27 The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their
seed, and upon all
such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail,
that they would keep
these two days according to their writing, and according to
their [appointed] time
every year;
ES-9:28 And [that] these days [should be] remembered and kept
throughout every
generation, every family, every province, and every city; and
[that] these days of
Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of
them perish from
their seed.
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