²⁵ But when it came before the king, he gave orders in writing ^(A)that his evil plan that he had devised against the Jews ^(B)should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. ²⁶ Therefore they called these days Purim, after the term ^(C)Pur. Therefore, because of all that was written in ^(D)this letter, and of what they had faced in this matter, and of what had happened to them, ²⁷ the Jews firmly obligated themselves and their offspring and ^(E)all who joined them, that without fail they would keep ^(F)these two days according to what was written and at the time appointed every year,