Esther 9
9:1For in the twelfth month, on the thirteenth of the month, which is Adar, the letters written by the king were at hand.
9:2And in that day the adversaries of the Jews were destroyed, for fearing them no one opposed.
9:3For the rulers of the satraps, and the sovereigns, and the royal scribes esteemed the Jews, for the fear of Mordecai rested upon them.
9:4For the order of the king fell for him to be named in all the kingdom.
9:6And in Shushan the city the Jews killed five hundred men --
9:7both Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,
9:8and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha and Parmashta, and Arisai,
9:9and Aridai, and Vajezatha,
9:10even the ten sons of Haman, son of Hammedatha the Bougean, the enemy of the Jews; but they plundered not in that day.
9:11And was given the number to the king of the ones being destroyed in Shushan.
9:12And the king said to Esther, The Jews destroyed in Shushan five hundred men in the city; and in the place round about, how do you imagine they were treated? What then do you still petition, for it will be yours?
9:13And Esther said to the king, Let it be given for the Jews to deal likewise tomorrow, so as far the ten sons of Haman to hang.
9:14And the king committed it so to be. And he displayed to the Jews of the city the bodies of the sons of Haman to hang.
9:15And the Jews gathered together in Shushan on the fourteenth day of Adar, and they killed three hundred men, but nothing they plundered.
9:16And the rest of the Jews, of the ones in the kingdom, gathered together and helped themselves, and gained rest from the warlike men; for they destroyed of them, seven ten thousands, and five thousand men on the thirteenth of Adar, but they plundered nothing.
9:17And they rested on the fourteenth of the same month, and they celebrated it as a day of rest with joy and gladness.
9:18And the Jews in Shushan the city gathered together also on the fourteenth and rested. But they celebrated even on the fifteenth with joy and gladness.
9:19Because of this then the Jews, the ones being disseminated in every place outside, celebrate on the fourteenth of Adar, a good day with gladness, each sending portions to his neighbor.
9:20And Mordecai wrote these words in a scroll and sent them to the Jews, as many as were in the kingdom of Artaxerxes, to the ones near and to the ones far;
9:21to establish these days as good days, and to celebrate both the fourteenth and the fifteenth of Adar.
9:22For in these days the Jews gained rest from their enemies. And the month in which things turned for them, which was Adar, from mourning to joy, and from grief to good days, was to celebrate entirely for good days of wedding feasts and gladness, sending gift portions to their friends and to the poor.
9:23And the Jews favorably received it as Mordecai wrote to them,
9:24of how Haman son of Hammedatha the Macedonian waged war against them; as he ordained a referendum and the lot, to obliterate them;
9:25and how he entered to the king, telling him to hang Mordecai. But as much as he attempted to bring bad things upon the Jews, upon himself it came to pass; and he was hanged, he and his children.
9:26On account of this they call these days Purim because of the lots, (for in their dialect they are called purim), because of the words of this letter, and as much as they suffered on account of it, and as much as happened to them and was stopped.
9:27And the Jews favorably received it for themselves, and for their seed, and for the ones purposed unto them to observe it -- nor in fact shall they treat it otherwise. And these days were a memorial being completed according to generation and generation, and city, and family, and place.
9:28And these days were celebrated for all time, and their memorial in no way should fail unto generations.
9:29And Esther the queen daughter of Abihail wrote, and Mordecai the Jew, as much as they did, and the confirmation of the letter of the purim.
9:31And they established to themselves Mordecai and Esther the queen for themselves; and then establishing according to their fasting and their counsel.
9:32And Esther established the matter for the eon, and it was written for a memorial.