Esther 9:23
King James Version (KJV)
And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;
In context
21 To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
22 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.
23 And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;
24 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;
25 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.
Esther 9:23 in every translation
- KJV King James Version
- And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;
- WEB World English Bible
- The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them,
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- So the Jews agreed to continue the custom they had started, as Mordecai had written to them.
- ASV American Standard Version
- And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And the Jews have received that which they had begun to do, and that which Mordecai hath written unto them,
- DBY Darby Translation
- And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written to them.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written to them;