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Esther 9:22-24
English Standard Version
Esther 9:22-24
English Standard Version
22 as the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into (A)a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and gifts to the poor.
23 So the Jews accepted what they had started to do, and what Mordecai had written to them. 24 For Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, (B)the enemy of all the Jews, (C)had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and (D)had cast Pur (that is, cast lots), to crush and to destroy them.
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The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
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