Esther 9:21
World English Bible (WEB)
to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month Adar yearly,
In context
19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, a holiday, and a day of sending presents of food to one another.
20 Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, both near and far,
21 to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month Adar yearly,
22 as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy.
23 The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them,
Esther 9:21 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month Adar yearly,
- KJV King James Version
- To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- to establish among them an annual celebration on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar
- ASV American Standard Version
- to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- to establish on them, to be keeping the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and the fifteenth day of it, in every year and year,
- DBY Darby Translation
- to establish [this] among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
- WBS Webster Bible
- To establish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,