NOW in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Yahudiym hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Yahudiym had rule over them that hated them;)
The Yahudiym gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Achashverosh, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon all people.
And all the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the deputies, and officers of the king, helped the Yahudiym; because the fear of Mordekai fell upon them.
For Mordekai was great in the king's house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces: for this man Mordekai waxed greater and greater.
Thus the Yahudiym smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.
And in Shushan the palace the Yahudiym slew and destroyed five hundred men.
And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Acpatha,
And Poratha, and Adalya, and Ariydatha,
And Parmashta, and Ariycai, and Ariydai, and Vayezatha,
The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Yahudiym, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand.
On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king.
And the king said unto Ecter the queen, The Yahudiym have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? now what is your petition? and it shall be granted you: or what is your request further? and it shall be done.
Then said Ecter, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Yahudiym which are in Shushan to do tomorrow also according unto this day's decree, and את let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.
And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged את Haman's ten sons.
For the Yahudiym that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.
But the other Yahudiym that were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey,
On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
But the Yahudiym that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof; and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
Therefore the Yahudiym of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made את the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
And Mordekai wrote these things, and sent cepheriym unto all the Yahudiym that were in all the provinces of the king Achashverosh, both nigh and far,
To stablish this among them, that they should keep את the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
As the days wherein the Yahudiym 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.
And the Yahudiym את undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordekai had written unto them;
Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagiy, the enemy of all the Yahudiym, had devised against the Yahudiym to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;
But when Ecter came before the king, he commanded by cepheriym that his wicked device, which he devised against the Yahudiym, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
Wherefore they called these days Puriym after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this cepher, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them,
The Yahudiym 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 את 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 Puriym should not fail from among the Yahudiym, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.
Then Ecter the queen, the daughter of Aviyhayil, and Mordekai the Yahudiy, wrote with all authority, to confirm את this second cepher of Puriym.
And he sent the cepheriym unto all the Yahudiym, to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Achashverosh, with words of peace and truth,
To confirm these days of Puriym in their times appointed, according as Mordekai the Yahudiy and Ecter 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 Ecter confirmed these matters of Puriym; and it was written in the cepher.