THE DECREE OF ESTHER CONFIRMED THESE MATTERS OF PURIM

 ESTHER 9:26-32

WHEREFORE THEY CALLED

 THESE DAYS PURIM AFTER 

THE NAME OF PUR. 

THEREFORE FOR ALL THE WORDS 

OF THIS LETTER, 
AND OF THAT WHICH THEY 

HAD SEEN CONCERNING THIS 

MATTER, AND WHICH HAD 

COME UNTO THEM,
THE JEWS ORDAINED, 

AND TOOK UPON THEM, 

AND UPON THEIR SEED, 

AND UPON ALL SUCH AS 

JOINED THEMSELVES 

UNTO THEM, 
SO AS IT SHOULD NOT FAIL, 

THAT THEY WOULD KEEP 

THESE TWO DAYS ACCORDING 

TO THEIR WRITING, 
AND ACCORDING TO THEIR 

APPOINTED TIME EVERY YEAR;
AND THAT THESE DAYS 

SHOULD BE REMEMBERED 

AND KEPT THROUGHOUT 

EVERY GENERATION, 

EVERY FAMILY, 
EVERY PROVINCE, 

AND EVERY CITY; 

AND THAT THESE DAYS 

OF PURIM SHOULD NOT FAIL 

FROM AMONG THE JEWS, 
NOR THE MEMORIAL OF THEM

 PERISH FROM THEIR SEED.
THEN ESTHER THE QUEEN, 

THE DAUGHTER OF ABIHAIL, 

AND MORDECAI THE JEW, 

WROTE WITH ALL AUTHORITY, 
TO CONFIRM THIS SECOND 

LETTER OF PURIM.
AND HE SENT THE LETTERS 

UNTO ALL THE JEWS, 

TO THE HUNDRED TWENTY 

AND SEVEN PROVINCES OF THE KINGDOM

OF AHASUERUS, 
WITH WORDS OF 

PEACE AND TRUTH,
TO CONFIRM THESE 

DAYS OF PURIM IN THEIR 

TIMES APPOINTED, 
ACCORDING AS MORDECAI 

THE JEW AND ESTHER 

THE QUEEN HAD ENJOINED 

THEM, 

AND 

AS THEY HAD DECREED 

FOR THEMSELVES 

AND FOR THEIR SEED, 

THE MATTERS OF THE 

FASTINGS 

AND THEIR CRY. 

AND 

THE DECREE OF ESTHER 

CONFIRMED THESE 

MATTERS OF PURIM; 

AND 

IT WAS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK.

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