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Greek Esther 9:26
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Greek Esther 9:26
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
26 Therefore these days were called “Purim,” because of the lots (for in their language this is the word that means “lots”). And so, because of what was written in this letter and because of what they had experienced in this affair and what had befallen them, Mordecai established this festival,[a](A)
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- 9.26 Gk he established (it)
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