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Esther 9:26-28
Living Bible
Esther 9:26-28
Living Bible
26 That is why this celebration is called “Purim” because the word for “throwing dice” in Persian is pur. 27 All the Jews throughout the realm agreed to inaugurate this tradition and to pass it on to their descendants and to all who became Jews; they declared they would never fail to celebrate these two days at the appointed time each year. 28 It would be an annual event from generation to generation, celebrated by every family throughout the countryside and cities of the empire, so that the memory of what had happened would never perish from the Jewish race.
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