Esther 9:23

So the Jews agreed to continue the custom they had started, as Mordecai had written to them.

Berean Standard Bible
Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them,

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

And the Iewes promised to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written vnto them,

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

And the Jews have received that which they had begun to do, and that which Mordecai hath written unto them,

Bible in Basic English

And the Jews gave their word to go on as they had been doing and as Mordecai had given them orders in writing;

In context

22as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.

24For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the Pur (that is, the lot) to crush and destroy them.

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