Scripture · Old Testament
Esther 9:23
Esther 9:23 is verse 23 of Esther chapter 9, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
So the Jews agreed to continue the custom they had started, as Mordecai had written to them.
King James Version
And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;
World English Bible
The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them,
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Esther 9:21–25 · Berean Standard Bible
21 to establish among them an annual celebration on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar
22 as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.
23 So the Jews agreed to continue the custom they had started, as Mordecai had written to them.
24 For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the Pur (that is, the lot) to crush and destroy them.
25 But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should come back upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
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