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Esther 9 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:1 - And in the twelfth month -- it is the month of Adar -- on the thirteenth day of it, in which the word of the king, even his law, hath come to be done, in the day that the enemies of the Jews had hoped to rule over them, and it is turned that the Jews rule over those hating them --

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:2 - the Jews have been assembled in their cities, in all provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to put forth a hand on those seeking their evil, and no man hath stood in their presence, for their fear hath fallen on all the peoples.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:3 - And all heads of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the governors, and those doing the work that the king hath, are lifting up the Jews, for a fear of Mordecai hath fallen upon them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:4 - for great is Mordecai in the house of the king, and his fame is going into all the provinces, for the man Mordecai is going on and becoming great.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:5 - And the Jews smite among all their enemies -- a smiting of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction -- and do with those hating them according to their pleasure,

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:6 - and in Shushan the palace have the Jews slain and destroyed five hundred men;

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:7 - and Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:8 - and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:9 - and Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha,

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:10 - ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, adversary of the Jews, they have slain, and on the prey they have not put forth their hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:11 - On that day hath come the number of the slain in Shushan the palace before the king,

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:12 - and the king saith to Esther the queen, 'In Shushan the palace have the Jews slain and destroyed five hundred men, and the ten sons of Haman; in the rest of the provinces of the king what have they done? and what is thy petition? and it is given to thee; and what thy request again? and it is done.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:13 - And Esther saith, 'If to the king it be good, let it be given also to-morrow, to the Jews who are in Shushan, to do according to the law of to-day; and the ten sons of Haman they hang on the tree.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:14 - And the king saith -- 'to be done so;' and a law is given in Shushan, and the ten sons of Haman they have hanged.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:15 - And the Jews who are in Shushan are assembled also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and they slay in Shushan three hundred men, and on the prey they have not put forth their hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:16 - And the rest of the Jews, who are in the provinces of the king, have been assembled, even to stand for their life, and to rest from their enemies, and to slay among those hating them five and seventy thousand, and on the prey they have not put forth their hand;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:17 - on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, even to rest on the fourteenth of it, and to make it a day of banquet and of joy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:18 - And the Jews who are in Shushan have been assembled, on the thirteenth day of it, and on the fourteenth of it, even to rest on the fifteenth of it, and to make it a day of banquet and of joy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:19 - Therefore the Jews of the villages, who are dwelling in cities of the villages, are making the fourteenth day of the month of Adar -- joy and banquet, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.

The Feast of Purim Instituted

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:20 - And Mordecai writeth these things, and sendeth letters unto all the Jews who are in all provinces of the king Ahasuerus, who are near and who are far off,

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:21

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:21 - to establish on them, to be keeping the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and the fifteenth day of it, in every year and year,

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:22 - as days on which the Jews have rested from their enemies, and the month that hath been turned to them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning to a good day, to make them days of banquet and of joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the needy.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:23 - And the Jews have received that which they had begun to do, and that which Mordecai hath written unto them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:24 - because Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, adversary of all the Jews, had devised concerning the Jews to destroy them, and had caused to fall Pur -- that is the lot -- to crush them and to destroy them;

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:25

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:25 - and in her coming in before the king, he said with the letter, 'Let his evil device that he devised against the Jews turn back upon his own head,' and they have hanged him and his sons on the tree,

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:26

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:26 - therefore they have called these days Purim -- by the name of the lot -- therefore, because of all the words of this letter, and what they have seen concerning this, and what hath come unto them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:27 - the Jews have established and received upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all those joined unto them, and it doth not pass away, to be keeping these two days according to their writing, and according to their season, in every year and year;

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:28 - and these days are remembered and kept in every generation and generation, family and family, province and province, and city and city, and these days of Purim do not pass away from the midst of the Jews, and their memorial is not ended from their seed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:29

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:29 - And Esther the queen, daughter of Abihail, writeth, and Mordecai the Jew, with all might, to establish this second letter of Purim,

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:30

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:30 - and he sendeth letters unto all the Jews, unto the seven and twenty and a hundred provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus -- words of peace and truth --

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 9:31

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:31 - to establish these days of Purim, in their seasons, as Mordecai the Jew hath established on them, and Esther the queen, and as they had established on themselves, and on their seed -- matters of the fastings, and of their cry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 9:32 - And a saying of Esther hath established these matters of Purim, and it is written in the Book.
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The Young's Literal Translation was translated by Robert Young, who believed in a strictly literal translation of God's word. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Esther Chapter 9 — Additional Translations:

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