Esther 9:24
22 as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.
23 So the Jews agreed to continue the custom they had started, as Mordecai had written to them.
For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the Pur (that is, the lot) to crush and destroy them.
25 But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should come back upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
26 Therefore these days are called Purim, from the word Pur. Because of all the instructions in this letter, and because of all they had seen and experienced,
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- BSB
- For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the Pur (that is, the lot) to crush and destroy them.
- KJV
- Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;
- WEB
- because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast “Pur”, that is the lot, to consume them and to destroy them;
- ASV
- because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;
- DARBY
- For Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the oppressor of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them and to destroy them;
- BLB
- for Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had caused to fall Pur (that [is], the lot) to throw them into confusion and to destroy them.
- ÅB
- for agagitten Haman, Hammedatas sønn, alle jøders fiende, hadde lagt råd opp mot jødene for å utrydde dem og kastet pur, det er lodd, for å ødelegge og utrydde dem,
- OTB
- For Haman, sønn av Hamedata, agagitten, motstanderen av alle jødene, hadde lagt planer mot jødene for å ødelegge dem og hadde kastet pur, det vil si loddet, for å forstyrre og ødelegge dem.
- B1930
- for agagitten Haman, Hammedatas sønn, alle jøders fiende, hadde lagt råd op mot jødene for å utrydde dem og kastet pur, det er lodd, for å ødelegge og utrydde dem,
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Esther 3:5–13
When Haman saw that Mordecai would not bow down or pay him homage, he was filled with rage.
Read in contextEsther 9:10
They killed these ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
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