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Ezra Chapter 9

1 Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the

3 And all the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the

4 For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out

5 Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the

6 And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred

7 And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha, 9:8 And Poratha, and

11 On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the

12 And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and

13 Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the

14 And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given

15 For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on

16 But the other Jews that were in the king’s provinces gathered

18 But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the

19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled

20 And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the

23 And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai

26 Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur.

29 Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the

30 And he sent the letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred twenty

32 And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it