22
because on those days the Jewsridthemselves of their enemies, and it was a monthwhich was turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday*; that they should make them days of feasting and rejoicing and sendingportions of food to oneanother and gifts to the poor.
24
For Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the adversary of all the Jews, had schemedagainst the Jews to destroy them and had castPur, that is the lot, to disturb them and destroy them.
25
But when it came to the king'sattention, he commanded by letter that his wickedschemewhich he had devisedagainst the Jews, should return on his own head and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
26
Therefore* they calledthesedaysPurimafter the name of Pur. And because of the instructions in thisletter, both what they had seen in thisregard and what had happened to them,
27
the Jewsestablished and made a custom for themselves and for their descendants and for all those who allied themselves with them, so that they would not fail to celebratethesetwodays according to their regulation and according to their appointedtimeannually*.
28
So thesedays were to be remembered and celebrated throughout everygeneration, everyfamily, everyprovince and everycity; and thesedays of Purim were not to fail from among the Jews, or their memoryfade from their descendants.
31
to establishthesedays of Purim at their appointedtimes, just as Mordecai the Jew and QueenEsther had established for them, and just as they had established for themselves and for their descendants with instructions for their times of fasting and their lamentations.