Esther
King James Version (KJV)
Esther 9:23
“And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;”
King James Version (KJV)
Esther 9:23 Context
20And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far, 21To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly, 22As 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. 23And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them; 24Because 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; 25But 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. 26Wherefore 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,
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Translation Details for Esther 9:23
And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;
And the Iewes vndertooke to doe, as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written vnto them:
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
Thus the Jews undertook what they had started to do, and what Mordecai had written to them.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;
- American Standard Version (1901)
And the Jews gave their word to go on as they had been doing and as Mordecai had given them orders in writing;
- Basic English Bible
So the Jews agreed to continue the custom they had started, as Mordecai had written to them.
- Berean Standard Bible Bible
And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written to them.
- Darby Bible
And the Jews undertook to observe with solemnity all they had begun to do at that time, which Mardochai by letters had commanded to be done.
- Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;
- English Revised Version
The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them;
- World English Bible