20 And Mordecai sent letters to all the Jews in every division of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, near and far,
21 Ordering them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and the fifteenth day of the same month, every year,
22 As days on which the Jews had rest from their haters, and the month which for them was turned from sorrow to joy, and from weeping to a good day: and that they were to keep them as days of feasting and joy, of sending offerings to one another and good things to the poor.
23 And the Jews gave their word to go on as they had been doing and as Mordecai had given them orders in writing;
24 Because Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the hater of all the Jews, had made designs for their destruction, attempting to get a decision by Pur (that is, chance) with a view to putting an end to them and cutting them off;
25 But when the business was put before the king, he gave orders by letters that the evil design which he had made against the Jews was to be turned against himself; and that he and his sons were to be put to death by hanging.
26 So these days were named Purim, after the name of Pur. And so, because of the words of this letter, and of what they had seen in connection with this business, and what had come to them,
27 The Jews made a rule and gave an undertaking, causing their seed and all those who were joined to them to do the same, so that it might be in force for ever, that they would keep those two days, as ordered in the letter, at the fixed time every year;
28 And that those days were to be kept in memory through every generation and every family, in every division of the kingdom and every town, that there might never be a time when these days of Purim would not be kept among the Jews, or when the memory of them would go from the minds of their seed.
29 Then Esther the queen, daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, sent a second letter giving the force of their authority to the order about the Purim.
30 And he sent letters to all the Jews in the hundred and twenty-seven divisions of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with true words of peace,
31 Giving the force of law to these days of Purim at their fixed times, as they had been ordered by Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen, and in keeping with the rules they had made for themselves and their seed, in connection with their time of going without food and their cry for help.
32 The order given by Esther gave the force of law to the rules about the Purim; and it was recorded in the book.
20 末底改把这些事记录下来， 并且送文书给亚哈随鲁各省远近所有的犹大人，
21 嘱咐他们每年都要守亚达月十四、十五两日。
22 以这月的两日， 为犹大人脱离仇敌， 得享安宁的日子， 是转忧为喜， 转哀为乐的吉日， 叫他们在这两日饮宴欢乐， 大家互赠礼物， 也赒济穷人。
23 于是， 犹大人承诺要守他们起初所守的， 也承诺要遵守末底改写给他们的。
24 原本犹大人的敌人， 亚甲族哈米大他的儿子哈曼曾经设谋陷害犹大人， 要消灭他们； 他弄卜"普珥"， 就是抽签， 为要打击和消灭犹大人。
25 但这事呈到王面前以后， 王使用文书降旨吩咐， 使哈曼计谋的恶事， 就是他设谋陷害犹大人的事归到他自己的头上， 又使人把他和他的众子挂在木架上。
26 因此， 犹大人照着"普珥"的名字， 称这两日为普珥节； 所以他们因这信上的话， 又因他们所看见和所遭遇的事，
27 犹大人就立了定例， 承诺他们自己和他们的后裔， 以及所有与他们联合的人， 每年都要按着所写的和指定的两日守这节日， 永不可废止。
28 使人在各省各城， 家家户户， 世世代代， 都记念、遵守这两日， 使这普珥节的日子在犹大人中， 永不废止。
29 亚比孩的女儿王后以斯帖和犹大人末底改以全权写了这第二封信， 嘱咐犹大人守这普珥节。
30 他用和平和诚实的话， 把文书送给亚哈随鲁国中一百二十七省所有的犹大人，
31 劝他们按着规定的时期， 照着犹大人末底改和王后以斯帖所嘱咐的， 也照着他们在禁食和哀求的时候为自己与后裔所承诺的， 守这普珥节。
32 以斯帖的命令确定了普珥节； 这命令也记录在史记上。