To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had instructed them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their descendents, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
You therefore gird up your loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command you: be not dismayed at their faces, so that I do not confound you before them.