Esther 9:21 — Bible Verse (KJV)

“To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,”

Esther 9:21 — King James Version (KJV), 1611

Esther 9:21 in 6 Bible Translations

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Esther 9:21 WEB — World English Bible (2000)

“to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month Adar yearly,”

Esther 9:21 — World English Bible

Esther 9:21 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)

“to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly, ”

Esther 9:21 — American Standard Version

Esther 9:21 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)

“to establish on them, to be keeping the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and the fifteenth day of it, in every year and year,”

Esther 9:21 — Young's Literal Translation

Esther 9:21 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)

“to establish [this] among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly, ”

Esther 9:21 — Darby Translation

Esther 9:21 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)

“Inioyning them that they shoulde keepe the fourteenth day of the moneth Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, euery yeere.”

Esther 9:21 — Geneva Bible

Esther 9:21 in Context — Esther 9

19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.

20 And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far,

21 To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,

22 As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.

23 And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;

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