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Esther 9:20-32 — The Feast of Purim
Esth.9.20-32
20Mordecai wrote these matters down and sent letters to all the Jews in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far. 21He established for them that they should observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and the fifteenth day of it, year after year, 22as the days on which the Jews found rest from their enemies, and as the month that was turned for them from sorrow to joy and from mourning to a day of celebration, they were to make them days of feasting and joy, of sending portions of food to one another, and gifts to the poor. 23So the Jews accepted what they had begun to do, and what Mordecai had written to them. 24For Haman 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 throw them into confusion and to destroy them. 25But when Esther came before the king , he commanded in writing that the evil scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. 26Therefore they called these days Purim, after the name Pur. Therefore, because of all the words of this letter, and because of what they had seen in this matter and what had happened to them, 27the Jews established and accepted for themselves, for their descendants, and for all who joined themselves to them, that without fail they would observe these two days according to what was written and at their appointed time, year after year. 28These days were to be remembered and observed generation after generation, family after family, province after province, and city after city. These days of Purim were not to pass away from among the Jews, nor was their memory to cease from their descendants. 29Then Queen Esther daughter of Abihail, together with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter about Purim. 30He sent letters to all the Jews in the one hundred and twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and faithfulness, 31to confirm these days of Purim at their appointed times, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established them, and just as they had accepted for themselves and their descendants the matters of the fasts and their outcry. 32And Esther’s decree confirmed these matters concerning Purim, and it was written in the book .
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4/11/2026
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