Chapter 9

¹ For in the twelfth month, on the thirteenth day of the month which is Adar, the letters written by the king arrived. ² In that day the adversaries of the Jews perished: for no one resisted, through fear of them. ³ For the chiefs of the satraps, and the princes and the royal scribes, honored the Jews; for the fear of Mordecai lay upon them. ⁴ For the order of the king was in force, that he should be celebrated in all the kingdom. ⁶ And in the city Susa the Jews slew five hundred men: ⁷ both Pharsannestain, and Delphon and Phasga, ⁸ and Pharadatha, and Barea, and Sarbacha, ⁹ and Marmasima, and Aruphaeus, and Arsaeus, and Zabutheus, ¹⁰ the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha the Bougean, the enemy of the Jews, and they plundered [their property] on the same day: ¹¹ and the number of them that perished in Susa was rendered to the king. ¹² And the king said to Esther, The Jews have slain five hundred men in the city Susa; and how, thinkest thou, have they used them in the rest of the country? What then dost thou yet ask, that it may be [done] for thee?

Est 9:1-12

¹³ And Esther said to the king, Let it be granted to the Jews so to treat them tomorrow as to hang the ten sons of Haman. ¹⁴ And he permitted it to be so done; and he gave up to the Jews of the city the bodies of the sons of Haman to hang. ¹⁵ And the Jews assembled in Susa on the fourteenth [day] of Adar, and slew three hundred men, but plundered no property.

Est 9:13-15

¹⁶ And the rest of the Jews who were in the kingdom assembled, and helped one another, and obtained rest from their enemies: for they destroyed fifteen thousand of them on the thirteenth [day] of Adar, but took no spoil. ¹⁷ And they rested on the fourteenth of the same month, and kept it as a day of rest with joy and gladness. ¹⁸ And the Jews in the city Susa assembled also on the fourteenth [day] and rested; and they kept also the fifteenth with joy and gladness. ¹⁹ On this account then [it is that] the Jews dispersed in every foreign land keep the fourteenth of Adar [as] a holy day with joy, sending portions each to his neighbor.

Est 9:16-19

²⁰ And Mordecai wrote these things in a book, and sent them to the Jews, as many as were in the kingdom of Artaxerxes, both them that were near and them that were afar off, ²¹ to establish these [as] joyful days, and to keep the fourteenth and fifteenth of Adar; ²² for on these days the Jews obtained rest from their enemies: and [as to] the month, which was Adar, in which a change was made for them, from mourning to joy, and from sorrow to a good day, to spend the whole of it [in] good days of feasting and gladness, sending portions to their friends, and to the poor.

Est 9:20-22

²³ And the Jews consented [to this] accordingly as Mordecai wrote to them, ²⁴ [showing] how Haman the son of Hammedatha the Macedonian fought against them, how he made a decree and cast lots to destroy them utterly; ²⁵ also how he went in to the king, telling [him] to hang Mordecai: but all the calamities he tried to bring upon the Jews came upon himself, and he was hanged, and his children. ²⁶ Therefore these days were called Purim, because of the lots (for in their language they are called Pur); because of the words of this letter, and [because of] all they suffered on this account, and all that happened to them. ²⁷ And [Mordecai] established it, and the Jews took upon themselves, and upon their seed, and upon those that were joined to them [to observe it], neither would they on any account behave differently: but these days [were to be] a memorial kept in every generation, and city, and family, and province. ²⁸ And these days of the Purim, [said they], shall be kept forever, and their memorial shall not fail in any generation.

Est 9:23-28

²⁹ And queen Esther, the daughter of Amminadab, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote all that they had done, and the confirmation of the letter of Purim. ³¹ And Mordecai and Esther the queen appointed [a fast] for themselves privately, even at that time also having formed their plan against their own health. ³² And Esther established it by a command forever, and it was written for a memorial.

Est 9:29-32