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Esther 9:20

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

Mordekhai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the king Achashverosh, both near and far,

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Remember his marvelous works that he has done, his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,

Now it happened in the days of Achashverosh (this is Achashverosh who reigned from Hoddu even to Kush, over one hundred twenty-seven provinces),

for he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, that every man should rule his own house, speaking in the language of his own people.

Then the king's scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king's satraps, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of King Achashverosh, and it was sealed with the king's ring.

Then the king's scribes were called at that time, in the third month Sivan, on the twenty-third day of the month; and it was written according to all that Mordekhai commanded to the Jews, and to the satraps, and the governors and princes of the provinces which are from Hoddu to Kush, one hundred twenty-seven provinces, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing, and in their language.

Therefore the Judeans of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, a good day, and a day of sending presents of food to one another.

to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month Adar yearly,

Therefore they called these days *Purim, * from the word *Pur.* Therefore because of all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and that which had come to them,

the Jews established, and imposed on themselves, and on their descendants, and on all those who joined themselves to them, so that it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to what was written, and according to its appointed time, every year;

Then Ester the queen, the daughter of Avichayil, and Mordekhai the Jew, wrote with all authority to confirm this second letter of Purim.

The LORD said to Moshe, *Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Yehoshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of `Amalek from under the sky.*

Now these are the words of the letter that Yirmeyahu the prophet sent from Yerushalayim to the residue of the elders of the captivity, and to the Kohanim, and to the prophets, and to all the people, whom Nevukhadnetzar 1 had carried away captive from Yerushalayim to Bavel,




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