These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Esther 8
Tanakh 17 verses
- 1 On that day did the Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews’ enemy unto the queen. And came before the ; for had told what he was unto her.
- 2 And the took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto . And set over the house of Haman.
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And spoke yet again before the , and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.
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Then the held out to the golden sceptre. So arose, and stood before the .
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And she said: ‘If it please the , and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the , and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews that are in all the king’s provinces;
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for how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?’
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Then the Ahasuerus said unto the queen and to the Jew: ‘Behold, I have given the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.
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Write ye also concerning the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king’s , and seal it with the king’s ring; for the writing which is written in the king’s , and sealed with the king’s ring, may no man reverse.’
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Then were the king’s scribes called at that time, in the third month, which is the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof; and it was written according to all that commanded concerning the Jews, even to the satraps, and the governors and princes of the provinces which are from India unto Ethiopia, a hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every province according to the writing thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.
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- 10 And they wrote in the of Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by posts on horseback, riding on swift steeds that were used in the king’s service, bred of the stud;
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that the had granted the Jews that were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, and to slay, and to cause to perish, all the forces of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,
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upon one day in all the provinces of Ahasuerus, namely, upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.
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The copy of the writing, to be given out for a decree in every province, was to be published unto all the peoples, and that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.
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So the posts that rode upon swift steeds that were used in the king’s service went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king’s ; and the decree was given out in Shushan the castle.
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And went forth from the presence of the in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great of gold, and with a rob of fine linen and purple; and the city of Shushan shouted and was glad.
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- 16 The Jews had light and gladness, and joy and .
- 17 And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king’s and his decree came, the Jews had gladness and joy, a feast and a good day. And many from among the peoples of the land became Jews; for the of the Jews was fallen upon them.