1:1 Now it came king's palace; to pass in the 1:6 [Where were] days of white, green, and Ahasuerus, (this blue, [hangings], [is] Ahasuerus fastened with which reigned, cords of fine from India even linen and purple unto Ethiopia, to silver rings [over] an hundred and pillars of and seven and marble: the beds twenty [were of] gold provinces:) and silver, upon 1:2 [That] in a pavement of those days, when red, and blue, the king and white, and Ahasuerus sat on black, marble. the throne of his 1:7 And they kingdom, which gave [them] drink [was] in Shushan in vessels of the palace, gold, (the 1:3 In the third vessels being year of his diverse one from reign, he made a another,) and feast unto all royal wine in his princes and abundance, his servants; the according to the power of Persia state of the and Media, the king. nobles and 1:8 And the princes of the drinking [was] provinces, according to the [being] before law; none did him: compel: for so 1:4 When he the king had showed the riches appointed to all of his glorious the officers of kingdom and the his house, that honour of his they should do excellent majesty according to many days, [even] every man's and hundred and pleasure. fourscore days. 1:9 Also Vashti 1:5 And when the queen made a these days were feast for the expired, the king women [in] the made a feast unto royal house which all the people [belonged] to that were present king Ahasuerus. in Shushan the 1:10 On the palace, both unto seventh day, when great and small, the heart of the seven days, in king was merry the court of the with wine, he garden of the commanded Mehuman, Biztha, 1:15 What shall Harbona, Bigtha, we do unto the and Abagtha, queen Vashti Zethar, and according to law, Carcas, the seven because she hath chamberlains that not performed the served in the commandment of presence of the king Ahasuerus the Ahasuerus by the king, chamberlains? 1:11 To bring 1:16 And Memucan Vashti the queen answered before before the king the king and the with the crown princes, Vashti royal, to show the queen hath the people and not done wrong to the princes her the king only, beauty: for she but also to all [was] fair to the princes, and look on. to all the people 1:12 But the that [are] in all queen Vashti the provinces of refused to come the king at the king's Ahasuerus. commandment by 1:17 For [this] [his] deed of the queen chamberlains: shall come abroad therefore was the unto all women, king very wroth, so that they and his anger shall despise burned in him. their husbands in 1:13 Then the their eyes, when king said to the it shall be wise men, which reported, The knew the times, king Ahasuerus (for so [was] the commanded Vashti king's manner the queen to be toward all that brought in before knew law and him, but she came judgment: not. 1:14 And the 1:18 [Likewise] next unto him shall the ladies [was] Carshena, of Persia and Shethar, Admatha, Media say this Tarshish, Meres, day unto all the Marsena, [and] king's princes, Memucan, the which have heard seven princes of of the deed of Persia and Media, the queen. Thus which saw the [shall there king's face, arise] too much [and] which sat contempt and the first in the wrath. kingdom;) 1:19 If it please the king, according to the let there go a language of every royal commandment people. from him, and let 2:1 After these it be written things, when the among the laws of wrath of king the Persians and Ahasuerus was the Medes, that appeased, he it be not remembered altered, That Vashti, and what Vashti come no she had done, and more before king what was decreed Ahasuerus; and against her. let the king give 2:2 Then said her royal estate the king's unto another that servants that is better than ministered unto she. him, Let there be 1:20 And when fair young the king's decree virgins sought which he shall for the king: make shall be 2:3 And let the published king appoint throughout all officers in all his empire, (for the provinces of it is great,) all his kingdom, that the wives shall they may gather give to their together all the husbands honour, fair young both to great and virgins unto small. Shushan the 1:21 And the palace, to the saying pleased house of the the king and the women, unto the princes; and the custody of Hege king did the king's according to the chamberlain, word of Memucan: keeper of the 1:22 For he sent women; and let letters into all their things for the king's purification be provinces, into given [them]: every province 2:4 And let the according to the maiden which writing thereof, pleaseth the king and to every be queen instead people after of Vashti. And their language, the thing pleased that every man the king; and he should bear rule did so. in his own house, 2:5 [Now] in and that [it] Shushan the should be palace there was published a certain Jew, whose name [was] obtained kindness Mordecai, the son of him; and he of Jair, the son speedily gave her of Shimei, the her things for son of Kish, a purification, Benjamite; with such things 2:6 Who had been as belonged to carried away from her, and seven Jerusalem with maidens, [which the captivity were] meet to be which had been given her, out of carried away with the king's house: Jeconiah king of and he preferred Judah, whom her and her maids Nebuchadnezzar unto the best the king of [place] of the Babylon had house of the carried away. women. 2:7 And he 2:10 Esther had brought up not showed her Hadassah, that people nor her [is], Esther, his kindred: for uncle's daughter: Mordecai had for she had charged her that neither father she should not nor mother, and show [it]. the maid [was] 2:11 And fair and Mordecai walked beautiful; whom every day before Mordecai, when the court of the her father and women's house, to mother were dead, know how Esther took for his own did, and what daughter. should become of 2:8 So it came her. to pass, when the 2:12 Now when king's every maid's turn commandment and was come to go in his decree was to king heard, and when Ahasuerus, after many maidens were that she had been gathered together twelve months, unto Shushan the according to the palace, to the manner of the custody of Hegai, women, (for so that Esther was were the days of brought also unto their the king's house, purifications to the custody of accomplished, [to Hegai, keeper of wit], six months the women. with oil of 2:9 And the myrrh, and six maiden pleased months with sweet him, and she odours, and with [other] things king Ahasuerus for the purifying into his house of the women;) royal in the 2:13 Then thus tenth month, came [every] which [is] the maiden unto the month Tebeth, in king; whatsoever the seventh year she desired was of his reign. given her to go 2:17 And the with her out of king loved Esther the house of the above all the women unto the women, and she king's house. obtained grace 2:14 In the and favour in his evening she went, sight more than and on the morrow all the virgins; she returned into so that he set the second house the royal crown of the women, to upon her head, the custody of and made her Shaashgaz, the queen instead of king's Vashti. chamberlain, 2:18 Then the which kept the king made a great concubines: she feast unto all came in unto the his princes and king no more, his servants, except the king [even] Esther's delighted in her, feast; and he and that she were made a release to called by name. the provinces, 2:15 Now when and gave gifts, the turn of according to the Esther, the state of the daughter of king. Abihail the uncle 2:19 And when of Mordecai, who the virgins were had taken her for gathered together his daughter, was the second time, come to go in then Mordecai sat unto the king, in the king's she required gate. nothing but what 2:20 Esther had Hegai the king's not [yet] showed chamberlain, the her kindred nor keeper of the her people; as women, appointed. Mordecai had And Esther charged her: for obtained favour Esther did the in the sight of commandment of all them that Mordecai, like as looked upon her. when she was 2:16 So Esther brought up with was taken unto him. 2:21 In those But Mordecai days, while bowed not, nor Mordecai sat in did [him] the king's gate, reverence. two of the king's 3:3 Then the chamberlains, king's servants, Bigthan and which [were] in Teresh, of those the king's gate, which kept the said unto door, were wroth, Mordecai, Why and sought to lay transgressest hand on the king thou the king's Ahasuerus. commandment? 2:22 And the 3:4 Now it came thing was known to pass, when to Mordecai, who they spake daily told [it] unto unto him, and he Esther the queen; hearkened not and Esther unto them, that certified the they told Haman, king [thereof] in to see whether Mordecai's name. Mordecai's 2:23 And when matters would inquisition was stand: for he had made of the told them that he matter, it was [was] a Jew. found out; 3:5 And when therefore they Haman saw that were both hanged Mordecai bowed on a tree: and it not, nor did him was written in reverence, then the book of the was Haman full of chronicles before wrath. the king. 3:6 And he 3:1 After these thought scorn to things did king lay hands on Ahasuerus promote Mordecai alone; Haman the son of for they had Hammedatha the showed him the Agagite, and people of advanced him, and Mordecai: set his seat wherefore Haman above all the sought to destroy princes that all the Jews that [were] with him. [were] throughout 3:2 And all the the whole kingdom king's servants, of Ahasuerus, that [were] in [even] the people the king's gate, of Mordecai. bowed, and 3:7 In the first reverenced Haman: month, that [is], for the king had the month Nisan, so commanded in the twelfth concerning him. year of king Ahasuerus, they Haman, The silver cast Pur, that [is] given to [is], the lot, thee, the people before Haman from also, to do with day to day, and them as it from month to seemeth good to month, [to] the thee. twelfth [month], 3:12 Then were that [is], the the king's month Adar. scribes called on 3:8 And Haman the thirteenth said unto king day of the first Ahasuerus, There month, and there is a certain was written people scattered according to all abroad and that Haman had dispersed among commanded unto the people in all the king's the provinces of lieutenants, and thy kingdom; and to the governors their laws [are] that [were] over diverse from all every province, people; neither and to the rulers keep they the of every people king's laws: of every province therefore it [is] according to the not for the writing thereof, king's profit to and [to] every suffer them. people after 3:9 If it please their language; the king, let it in the name of be written that king Ahasuerus they may be was it written, destroyed: and I and sealed with will pay ten the king's ring. thousand talents 3:13 And the of silver to the letters were sent hands of those by posts into all that have the the king's charge of the provinces, to business, to destroy, to kill, bring [it] into and to cause to the king's perish, all Jews, treasuries. both young and 3:10 And the old, little king took his children and ring from his women, in one hand, and gave it day, [even] upon unto Haman the the thirteenth son of Hammedatha [day] of the the Agagite, the twelfth month, Jews' enemy. which is the 3:11 And the month Adar, and king said unto [to take] the spoil of them for the Jews, and a prey. fasting, and 3:14 The copy of weeping, and the writing for a wailing; and many commandment to be lay in sackcloth given in every and ashes. province was 4:4 So Esther's published unto maids and her all people, that chamberlains came they should be and told [it] ready against her. Then was the that day. queen exceedingly 3:15 The posts grieved; and she went out, being sent raiment to hastened by the clothe Mordecai, king's and to take away commandment, and his sackcloth the decree was from him: but he given in Shushan received [it] the palace. And not. the king and 4:5 Then called Haman sat down to Esther for drink; but the Hatach, [one] of city Shushan was the king's perplexed. chamberlains, 4:1 When whom he had Mordecai appointed to perceived all attend upon her, that was done, and gave him a Mordecai rent his commandment to clothes, and put Mordecai, to know on sackcloth with what it [was], ashes, and went and why it [was]. out into the midst of the 4:6 So Hatach city, and cried went forth to with a loud and a Mordecai unto the bitter cry; street of the 4:2 And came city, which [was] even before the before the king's king's gate: for gate. none [might] 4:7 And Mordecai enter into the told him of all king's gate that had happened clothed with unto him, and of sackcloth. the sum of the 4:3 And in every money that Haman province, had promised to whithersoever the pay to the king's king's treasuries for commandment and the Jews, to his decree came, destroy them. [there was] great 4:8 Also he gave mourning among him the copy of the writing of Esther's words. the decree that 4:13 Then was given at Mordecai Shushan to commanded to destroy them, to answer Esther, show [it] unto Think not with Esther, and to thyself that thou declare [it] unto shalt escape in her, and to the king's house, charge her that more than all the she should go in Jews. unto the king, to 4:14 For if thou make supplication altogether unto him, and to holdest thy peace make request at this time, before him for [then] shall her people. there enlargement 4:9 And Hatach and deliverance came and told arise to the Jews Esther the words from another of Mordecai. place; but thou 4:10 Again and thy father's Esther spake unto house shall be Hatach, and gave destroyed: and him commandment who knoweth unto Mordecai; whether thou art 4:11 All the come to the king's servants, kingdom for and the people of [such] a time as the king's this? provinces, do 4:15 Then Esther know, that bade [them] whosoever, return Mordecai whether man or [this answer], woman, shall come 4:16 Go, gather unto the king together all the into the inner Jews that are court, who is not present in called, [there Shushan, and fast is] one law of ye for me, and his to put [him] neither eat nor to death, except drink three days, such to whom the night or day: I king shall hold also and my out the golden maidens will fast sceptre, that he likewise; and so may live: but I will I go in unto have not been the king, which called to come in [is] not unto the king according to the these thirty law: and if I days. perish, I perish. 4:12 And they told to Mordecai 4:17 So Mordecai went his way, and unto the banquet did according to that I have all that Esther prepared for him. had commanded him. 5:5 Then the 5:1 Now it came king said, Cause to pass on the Haman to make third day, that haste, that he Esther put on may do as Esther [her] royal hath said. So the [apparel], and king and Haman stood in the came to the inner court of banquet that the king's house, Esther had over against the prepared. king's house: and 5:6 And the king the king sat upon said unto Esther his royal throne at the banquet of in the royal wine, What [is] house, over thy petition? and against the gate it shall be of the house. granted thee: and 5:2 And it was what [is] thy so, when the king request? even to saw Esther the the half of the queen standing in kingdom it shall the court, [that] be performed. she obtained 5:7 Then favour in his answered Esther, sight: and the and said, My king held out to petition and my Esther the golden request [is]; sceptre that 5:8 If I have [was] in his found favour in hand. So Esther the sight of the drew near, and king, and if it touched the top please the king of the sceptre. to grant my 5:3 Then said petition, and to the king unto perform my her, What wilt request, let the thou, queen king and Haman Esther? and what come to the [is] thy request? banquet that I it shall be even shall prepare for given thee to the them, and I will half of the do to morrow as kingdom. the king hath 5:4 And Esther said. answered, If [it 5:9 Then went seem] good unto Haman forth that the king, let the day joyful and king and Haman with a glad come this day heart: but when Haman saw and all his Mordecai in the friends unto him, king's gate, that Let a gallows be he stood not up, made of fifty nor moved for cubits high, and him, he was full to morrow speak of indignation thou unto the against Mordecai. king that Mordecai may be 5:10 hanged thereon: Nevertheless then go thou in Haman refrained merrily with the himself: and when king unto the he came home, he banquet. And the sent and called thing pleased for his friends, Haman; and he and Zeresh his caused the wife. gallows to be 5:11 And Haman made. told them of the 6:1 On that glory of his night could not riches, and the the king sleep, multitude of his and he commanded children, and all to bring the book [the things] of records of the wherein the king chronicles; and had promoted him, they were read and how he had before the king. advanced him 6:2 And it was above the princes found written, and servants of that Mordecai had the king. told of Bigthana 5:12 Haman said and Teresh, two moreover, Yea, of the king's Esther the queen chamberlains, the did let no man keepers of the come in with the door, who sought king unto the to lay hand on banquet that she the king had prepared but Ahasuerus. myself; and to 6:3 And the king morrow am I said, What honour invited unto her and dignity hath also with the been done to king. Mordecai for 5:13 Yet all this? Then said this availeth me the king's nothing, so long servants that as I see Mordecai ministered unto the Jew sitting him, There is at the king's nothing done for gate. him. 5:14 Then said 6:4 And the king Zeresh his wife said, Who [is] in the court? Now of the king's Haman was come most noble into the outward princes, that court of the they may array king's house, to the man [withal] speak unto the whom the king king to hang delighteth to Mordecai on the honour, and bring gallows that he him on horseback had prepared for through the him. street of the 6:5 And the city, and king's servants proclaim before said unto him, him, Thus shall Behold, Haman it be done to the standeth in the man whom the king court. And the delighteth to king said, Let honour. him come in. 6:10 Then the 6:6 So Haman king said to came in. And the Haman, Make king said unto haste, [and] take him, What shall the apparel and be done unto the the horse, as man whom the king thou hast said, delighteth to and do even so to honour? Now Haman Mordecai the Jew, thought in his that sitteth at heart, To whom the king's gate: would the king let nothing fail delight to do of all that thou honour more than hast spoken. to myself? 6:11 Then took 6:7 And Haman Haman the apparel answered the and the horse, king, For the man and arrayed whom the king Mordecai, and delighteth to brought him on honour, horseback through 6:8 Let the the street of the royal apparel be city, and brought which the proclaimed before king [useth] to him, Thus shall wear, and the it be done unto horse that the the man whom the king rideth upon, king delighteth and the crown to honour. royal which is 6:12 And set upon his Mordecai came head: again to the 6:9 And let this king's gate. But apparel and horse Haman hasted to be delivered to his house the hand of one mourning, and having his head said, If I have covered. found favour in 6:13 And Haman thy sight, O told Zeresh his king, and if it wife and all his please the king, friends every let my life be [thing] that had given me at my befallen him. petition, and my Then said his people at my wise men and request: Zeresh his wife 7:4 For we are unto him, If sold, I and my Mordecai [be] of people, to be the seed of the destroyed, to be Jews, before whom slain, and to thou hast begun perish. But if we to fall, thou had been sold for shalt not prevail bondmen and against him, but bondwomen, I had shalt surely fall held my tongue, before him. although the 6:14 And while enemy could not they [were] yet countervail the talking with him, king's damage. came the king's 7:5 Then the chamberlains, and king Ahasuerus hasted to bring answered and said Haman unto the unto Esther the banquet that queen, Who is he, Esther had and where is he, prepared. that durst 7:1 So the king presume in his and Haman came to heart to do so? banquet with 7:6 And Esther Esther the queen. said, The adversary and 7:2 And the king enemy [is] this said again unto wicked Haman. Esther on the Then Haman was second day at the afraid before the banquet of wine, king and the What [is] thy queen. petition, queen 7:7 And the king Esther? and it arising from the shall be granted banquet of wine thee: and what in his wrath [is] thy request? [went] into the and it shall be palace garden: performed, [even] and Haman stood to the half of up to make the kingdom. request for his 7:3 Then Esther life to Esther the queen the queen; for he answered and saw that there was evil the queen. And determined Mordecai came against him by before the king; the king. for Esther had 7:8 Then the told what he king returned out [was] unto her. of the palace 8:2 And the king garden into the took off his place of the ring, which he banquet of wine; had taken from and Haman was Haman, and gave fallen upon the it unto Mordecai. bed whereon And Esther set Esther [was]. Mordecai over the Then said the house of Haman. king, Will he 8:3 And Esther force the queen spake yet again also before me in before the king, the house? As the and fell down at word went out of his feet, and the king's mouth, besought him with they covered tears to put away Haman's face. the mischief of 7:9 And Haman the Harbonah, one of Agagite, and his the chamberlains, device that he said before the had devised king, Behold against the Jews. also, the gallows fifty cubits 8:4 Then the high, which Haman king held out the had made for golden sceptre Mordecai, who had toward Esther. So spoken good for Esther arose, and the king, stood before the standeth in the king, house of Haman. 8:5 And said, If Then the king it please the said, Hang him king, and if I thereon. have found favour 7:10 So they in his sight, and hanged Haman on the thing [seem] the gallows that right before the he had prepared king, and I [be] for Mordecai. pleasing in his Then was the eyes, let it be king's wrath written to pacified. reverse the 8:1 On that day letters devised did the king by Haman the son Ahasuerus give of Hammedatha the the house of Agagite, which he Haman the Jews' wrote to destroy enemy unto Esther the Jews which [are] in all the the lieutenants, king's provinces: and the deputies and rulers of the 8:6 For how can provinces which I endure to see [are] from India the evil that unto Ethiopia, an shall come unto hundred twenty my people? or how and seven can I endure to provinces, unto see the every province destruction of my according to the kindred? writing thereof, 8:7 Then the and unto every king Ahasuerus people after said unto Esther their language, the queen and to and to the Jews Mordecai the Jew, according to Behold, I have their writing, given Esther the and according to house of Haman, their language. and him they have 8:10 And he hanged upon the wrote in the king gallows, because Ahasuerus' name, he laid his hand and sealed [it] upon the Jews. with the king's 8:8 Write ye ring, and sent also for the letters by posts Jews, as it on horseback, liketh you, in [and] riders on the king's name, mules, camels, and seal [it] [and] young with the king's dromedaries: ring: for the 8:11 Wherein the writing which is king granted the written in the Jews which [were] king's name, and in every city to sealed with the gather themselves king's ring, may together, and to no man reverse. stand for their 8:9 Then were life, to destroy, the king's to slay, and to scribes called at cause to perish, that time in the all the power of third month, that the people and [is], the month province that Sivan, on the would assault three and them, [both] twentieth [day] little ones and thereof; and it women, and [to was written take] the spoil according to all of them for a that Mordecai prey, commanded unto 8:12 Upon one the Jews, and to day in all the provinces of king whithersoever the Ahasuerus, king's [namely], upon commandment and the thirteenth his decree came, [day] of the the Jews had joy twelfth month, and gladness, a which [is] the feast and a good month Adar. day. And many of 8:13 The copy of the people of the the writing for a land became Jews; commandment to be for the fear of given in every the Jews fell province [was] upon them. published unto 9:1 Now in the all people, and twelfth month, that the Jews that [is], the should be ready month Adar, on against that day the thirteenth to avenge day of the same, themselves on when the king's their enemies. commandment and 8:14 [So] the his decree drew posts that rode near to be put in upon mules [and] execution, in the camels went out, day that the being hastened enemies of the and pressed on by Jews hoped to the king's have power over commandment. And them, (though it the decree was was turned to the given at Shushan contrary, that the palace. the Jews had rule 8:15 And over them that Mordecai went out hated them;) from the presence 9:2 The Jews of the king in gathered royal apparel of themselves blue and white, together in their and with a great cities throughout crown of gold, all the provinces and with a of the king garment of fine Ahasuerus, to lay linen and purple: hand on such as and the city of sought their Shushan rejoiced hurt: and no man and was glad. could withstand 8:16 The Jews them; for the had light, and fear of them fell gladness, and upon all people. joy, and honour. 9:3 And all the 8:17 And in rulers of the every province, provinces, and and in every the lieutenants, city, and the deputies, and officers of the number of the king, helped those that were the Jews; because slain in Shushan the fear of the palace was Mordecai fell brought before upon them. the king. 9:4 For Mordecai 9:12 And the [was] great in king said unto the king's house, Esther the queen, and his fame went The Jews have out throughout slain and all the destroyed five provinces: for hundred men in this man Mordecai Shushan the waxed greater and palace, and the greater. ten sons of 9:5 Thus the Haman; what have Jews smote all they done in the their enemies rest of the with the stroke king's provinces? of the sword, and now what [is] thy slaughter, and petition? and it destruction, and shall be granted did what they thee: or what would unto those [is] thy request that hated them. further? and it 9:6 And in shall be done. Shushan the 9:13 Then said palace the Jews Esther, If it slew and please the king, destroyed five let it be granted hundred men. to the Jews which 9:7 And [are] in Shushan Parshandatha, and to do to morrow Dalphon, and also according Aspatha, unto this day's 9:8 And Poratha, decree, and let and Adalia, and Haman's ten sons Aridatha, be hanged upon 9:9 And the gallows. Parmashta, and 9:14 And the Arisai, and king commanded it Aridai, and so to be done: Vajezatha, and the decree 9:10 The ten was given at sons of Haman the Shushan; and they son of hanged Haman's Hammedatha, the ten sons. enemy of the 9:15 For the Jews, slew they; Jews that [were] but on the spoil in Shushan laid they not gathered their hand. themselves 9:11 On that day together on the fourteenth day made the also of the month fourteenth day of Adar, and slew the month Adar [a three hundred men day of] gladness at Shushan; but and feasting, and on the prey they a good day, and laid not their of sending hand. portions one to 9:16 But the another. other Jews that 9:20 And [were] in the Mordecai wrote king's provinces these things, and gathered sent letters unto themselves all the Jews that together, and [were] in all the stood for their provinces of the lives, and had king Ahasuerus, rest from their [both] nigh and enemies, and slew far, of their foes 9:21 To stablish seventy and five [this] among thousand, but them, that they they laid not should keep the their hands on fourteenth day of the prey, the month Adar, 9:17 On the and the fifteenth thirteenth day of day of the same, the month Adar; yearly, and on the 9:22 As the days fourteenth day of wherein the Jews the same rested rested from their they, and made it enemies, and the a day of feasting month which was and gladness. turned unto them 9:18 But the from sorrow to Jews that [were] joy, and from at Shushan mourning into a assembled good day: that together on the they should make thirteenth [day] them days of thereof, and on feasting and joy, the fourteenth and of sending thereof; and on portions one to the fifteenth another, and [day] of the same gifts to the they rested, and poor. made it a day of 9:23 And the feasting and Jews undertook to gladness. do as they had 9:19 Therefore begun, and as the Jews of the Mordecai had villages, that written unto dwelt in the them; unwalled towns, 9:24 Because Haman the son of their [appointed] Hammedatha, the time every year; Agagite, the 9:28 And [that] enemy of all the these days Jews, had devised [should be] against the Jews remembered and to destroy them, kept throughout and had cast Pur, every generation, that [is], the every family, lot, to consume every province, them, and to and every city; destroy them; and [that] these 9:25 But when days of Purim [Esther] came should not fail before the king, from among the he commanded by Jews, nor the letters that his memorial of them wicked device, perish from their which he devised seed. against the Jews, 9:29 Then Esther should return the queen, the upon his own daughter of head, and that he Abihail, and and his sons Mordecai the Jew, should be hanged wrote with all on the gallows. authority, to 9:26 Wherefore confirm this they called these second letter of days Purim after Purim. the name of Pur. 9:30 And he sent Therefore for all the letters unto the words of this all the Jews, to letter, and [of the hundred that] which they twenty and seven had seen provinces of the concerning this kingdom of matter, and which Ahasuerus, [with] had come unto words of peace them, and truth, 9:27 The Jews 9:31 To confirm ordained, and these days of took upon them, Purim in their and upon their times seed, and upon [appointed], all such as according as joined themselves Mordecai the Jew unto them, so as and Esther the it should not queen had fail, that they enjoined them, would keep these and as they had two days decreed for according to themselves and their writing, for their seed, and according to the matters of the fastings and their cry. 9:32 And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book. 10:1 And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and [upon] the isles of the sea. 10:2 And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia? 10:3 For Mordecai the Jew [was] next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed. ^Z^Z ~~~~~~