Ester 9:27

27 os judeus decidiram estabelecer o costume de que eles e os seus descendentes e todos os que se tornassem judeus não deixariam de comemorar anualmente esses dois dias, na forma prescrita e na data certa.

Ester 9:27 Meaning and Commentary

Esther 9:27

The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed,
and upon all such that joined themselves unto them
Who became proselytes to their religion; that is, they appointed the above two days as festivals, and engaged for themselves, for their children, and all proselytes, to observe them as such; and one of their canons ^F19 runs thus,

``all are obliged to read the Megillah (the book of Esther, which they always read on those days), priests, Levites, Nethinims, Israelites, men, women, and proselytes, and servants made free, and they train up little ones to read it:''

so as it should not fail;
of being observed, so as no man should transgress it, or pass it over:

that they should keep these two days;
the fourteenth and fifteenth of the month Adar or February:

according to their writing;
in this book, the book of Esther, which was to be read, as Aben Ezra; written in the Hebrew character, as the Targum; that is, in the Assyrian character, as Jarchi; the square character, as they call it:

and according to their appointed time every year;
whether simple or intercalated, as Aben Ezra observes: in an intercalary year the Jews have two Adars, and, though they keep the feast of Purim on the fourteenth of the first Adar, yet not with so much mirth, and call it the lesser Purim; but in the second Adar they observe it with all its ceremonies ^F20; so, in their canon, they do not keep Purim but in Adar that is next to Nisan or March, that redemption might be near redemption; the redemption of Mordecai near the redemption of Moses {u}.

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 Lebush & Schulchan, ib. (par. 1.) c. 689. sect. 1.
F20 Vid. Buxtorf. Synagog. Jud. c. 29. p. 563.
F21 Lebush, par. 1. c. 6, 7. sect. 1.

Ester 9:27 In-Context

25 Mas, quando isso chegou ao conhecimento do rei, ele deu ordens escritas para que o plano maligno de Hamã contra os judeus se voltasse contra a sua própria cabeça, e para que ele e seus filhos fossem enforcados.

26 Por isso aqueles dias foram chamados Purim, da palavra pur. Considerando tudo o que estava escrito nessa carta, o que tinham visto e o que tinha acontecido,

27 os judeus decidiram estabelecer o costume de que eles e os seus descendentes e todos os que se tornassem judeus não deixariam de comemorar anualmente esses dois dias, na forma prescrita e na data certa.

28 Esses dias seriam lembrados e comemorados em cada família de cada geração, em cada província e em cada cidade, e jamais deveriam deixar de ser comemorados pelos judeus. E os seus descendentes jamais deveriam esquecer-se de tais dias.

29 Então a rainha Ester, filha de Abiail, e o judeu Mardoqueu escreveram com toda a autoridade uma segunda carta para confirmar a primeira, acerca do Purim.