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Esther 9:30-32
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Esther 9:30-32
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
30 Letters were sent wishing peace and security to all the Jews, to the one hundred twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus,(A) 31 and giving orders that these days of Purim should be observed at their appointed seasons, as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther enjoined on the Jews, just as they had laid down for themselves and for their descendants regulations concerning their fasts and their lamentations.(B) 32 The command of Esther fixed these practices of Purim, and it was recorded in writing.(C)
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