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Now in the twelfth month, that is the
month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the

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same, when the king's commandment and his
decree drew near to be put in execution,

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in the day that the enemies of the Jews
hoped to have power over them,

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though it was turned to the contrary,
that the Jews had rule over them that

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hated them, the Jews gathered themselves
together in their cities, throughout all

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the provinces of the king Ahasuerus,
to lay hand on such as sought their hurt.

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And no man could withstand them,
for the fear of them fell upon all people.

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And all the rulers of the provinces,
and the lieutenants, and the deputies,

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and officers of the king, helped the Jews,
because the fear of Mordecai fell upon

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them.

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For Mordecai was great in the king's
house, and his fame went out throughout

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all the provinces.

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For this man Mordecai waxed greater and
greater.

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Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with
the stroke of the sword, and slaughter,

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and destruction, and did what they would
unto those that hated them.

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And in Shushan the palace, the Jews slew
and destroyed five hundred men.

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And for Shandatha, and Dalphon,
and Aspatha, and Porathah, and Adalia,

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and Aradathah, and Parmashtah,
and Eresai, and Eredi, and for Jezathah,

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the ten sons of Haman, the son of
Hamadathah, the enemy of the Jews,

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slew they.

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But on the spoil laid they not their hand.

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On that day the number of those that were
slain in Shushan the palace was brought

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before the king.

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And the king said unto Esther the queen,
The Jews have slain and destroyed five

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hundred men in Shushan the palace,
and the ten sons of Haman.

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What have they done in the rest of the
king's provinces?

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Now what is thy petition?

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And it shall be granted thee.

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Or what is thy request further?

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And it shall be done.

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Then said Esther, If it please the king,
let it be granted to the Jews which are in

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Shushan to do tomorrow also according unto
this day's decree, and let Haman's ten

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sons be hanged upon the gallows.

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And the king commanded it so to be done.

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And the decree was given at Shushan,
and they hanged Haman's ten sons.

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For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered
themselves together on the fourteenth day

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also of the month Adar, and slew three
hundred men at Shushan.

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But on the prey they laid not their hand.

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But the other Jews that were in the king's
provinces gathered themselves together,

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and stood for their lives, and had rest
from their enemies, and slew of their foes

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seventy and five thousand.

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But they laid not their hands on the prey
on the thirteenth day of the month Adar.

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And on the fourteenth day of the same
rested they, and made it a day of feasting

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and gladness.

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But the Jews that were at Shushan
assembled together on the thirteenth day

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thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof,
and on the fifteenth day of the same,

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they rested, and made it a day of feasting
and gladness.

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Therefore the Jews of the villages that
dwelt in the unwalled towns made the

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fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of
gladness and feasting and a good day,

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and of sending portions one to another.

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And Mordecai wrote these things,
and sent letters unto all the Jews that

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were in all the provinces of the king
Ahasuerus, both nigh and far, to establish

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this among them, that they should keep the
fourteenth day of the month Adar and the

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fifteenth day of the same yearly,
as the days wherein the Jews rested from

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their enemies, and the month which was
turned unto them from sorrow to joy,

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and from mourning into a good day,
that they should make them days of

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feasting and joy, and of sending portions
one to another, and gifts to the poor.

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And the Jews undertook to do as they had
begun, and as Mordecai had written unto

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them.

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Because Haman the son of Hamadatha the
Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews,

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had devised against the Jews to destroy
them, and had cast pure, that is,

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the lot, to consume them, and to destroy
them.

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But when Esther came before the king,
he commanded by letters that his wicked

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device, which he had devised against the
Jews, should return upon his own head,

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and that he and his sons should be hanged
on the gallows.

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Wherefore they called these days Purim,
after the name of pure.

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Therefore for all the words of this
letter, and of that which they had seen

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concerning this matter, and which had come
unto them, the Jews ordained, and took

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upon them, and upon their seed,
and upon all such as joined themselves

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unto them, so as it should not fail,
that they would keep these two days

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according to their writing, and according
to their appointed time every year,

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and that these days should be remembered,
and kept throughout every generation,

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every family, every province, and every
city, and that these days of Purim should

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not fail from among the Jews, nor the
memorial of them perish from their seed.

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Then Esther the queen, the daughter of
Abahel, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with

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all authority to confirm this second
letter of Purim.

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And he sent the letters unto all the Jews,
to the hundred twenty and seven provinces

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of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of
peace and truth, to confirm these days of

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Purim in their times appointed,
according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther

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the queen had enjoined them, and as they
had decreed for themselves and for their

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seed, the matters of the fastings and
their cry.

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And the decree of Esther confirmed these
matters of Purim, and it was written in

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the book.