Esther 9:24-26

International Standard Version

²⁴ since Hammedatha’s son Haman, the enemy of the Jewish people, had plotted against the Jewish people to destroy them, and he had cast the pur (that is, the lot) to determine when^[a] to confuse and destroy them.

²⁵ But when Esther came before the king, he ordered through a letter that the evil plot that Haman^[b] had devised against the Jewish people be rescinded,^[c] and that he and his sons be hanged on poles. ²⁶ Therefore these days were called Purim, from the word pur. Because of all that was written in this letter, because of what they experienced in this matter, and because of what happened to them,