Esther 9:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²³ So the Jews adopted as a custom what they had begun to do, as Mordecai had written to them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ So the Jews undertook to do as they had begun and as Mordecai had written to them–

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;

Common English Bible

²³ The Jews agreed to continue what they had already begun to do—just what Mordecai had written to them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ Esther answered him, "My petition and prayer is this:

English Standard Version 2016

²³ So the Jews accepted what they had started to do, and what Mordecai had written to them.

Esther 9:23 Cross References

Esther 9:22

as the days on which the Jews gained relief from their enemies and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday, that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and presents to the poor.

Esther 9:24

For Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast Pur—that is, “the lot”—to crush and to destroy them,