And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Dari´us the king.
Esther 9:21 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition to establish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 to stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition To command them to keep the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and also the fifteenth, yearly, American Standard Version (1901) to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly, Common English Bible He made it a rule that Jews keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar as special days each and every year. Catholic Public Domain Version And immediately the king said, "Call Haman quickly, so that he may obey Esther's will. And so the king and Haman came to the feast, which the queen had prepared for them. English Standard Version 2016 obliging them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fifteenth day of the same, year by year, |
And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Dari´us the king.
In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasue´rus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.
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.
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.
And Mor´decai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasue´rus, both nigh and far,
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.
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;
Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Ab´ihail, and Mor´decai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim.