- 囑咐他們每年守亞達月十四十五兩日、
- 以這月的兩日、為猶大人脫離仇敵得平安、轉憂為喜、轉悲為樂的吉日.在這兩日設筵歡樂、彼此餽送禮物、賙濟窮人。
- 於是猶大人、按著末底改所寫與他們的信、應承照初次所守的守為永例。
- 是因猶大人的仇敵、亞甲族哈米大他的兒子哈曼、設謀殺害猶大人、掣普珥、就是掣籤、為要殺盡滅絕他們。
- 這事報告於王、王便降旨使哈曼謀害猶大人的惡事、歸到他自己的頭上、並吩咐把他和他的眾子、都挂在木架上。
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- To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
- 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.
- And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;
- Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;
- But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
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