20 Nebo rozepsal Mardocheus ty věci, a rozeslal listy ke všem Židům, kteříž byli ve všech krajinách krále Asvera, blízkým i dalekým,

21 Ustavuje jim, aby slavili den čtrnáctý měsíce Adar, a den patnáctý téhož měsíce každého roku,

22 Podlé dnů těch, v nichž odpočinuli Židé od nepřátel svých, a měsíce toho, kterýž se jim obrátil z zámutku v radost, a z kvílení v dobrou vůli, aby ty dni slavili, hodujíce a veselíce se, a posílajíce částky pokrmů jeden druhému, i dary chudým.

23 I přijali to všickni Židé, že budou činiti to, což začali, a což jim psal Mardocheus:

24 Jak Aman syn Hammedatův Agagský, protivník všech Židů, ukládal o Židech, aby je vyhubil a uvrhl pur, totiž los, k setření a zahlazení jejich.

25 Ale jak ona vešla před oblíčej krále, poručil král v listech, aby obráceni byli úkladové jeho nešlechetní, kteréž vymyslil proti Židům, na hlavu jeho, a aby ho oběsili i syny jeho na šibenici.

26 I nazvali ty dny Purim, totiž losů, od jména toho pur. A tak z příčiny všech slov listu toho, a což viděli při tom, i což přišlo k nim,

27 Ustavili a přijali Židé na sebe i na símě své, i na všecky připojené k sobě, aby to nepominulo, že budou slaviti ty dva dni podlé vypsání jejich, a podlé určitého času jejich každého roku.

28 A že ti dnové budou pamětní a slavní v každém věku, rodině, krajině a městě; k tomu, že ti dnové Purim nepominou z prostředku Židů, a památka jejich nepřestane u potomků jejich.

29 Psala také Ester královna, dcera Abichailova, i Mardocheus Žid pro větší upevnění psání z strany dnů Purim po druhé.

30 A on rozeslal to psání ke všem Židům, do sta dvadcíti sedmi krajin království Asverova, vzkazuje jim pozdravení,

31 Aby tuze drželi dny ty Purim v určité časy jich, jakž je nařídil jim Mardocheus Žid a Ester královna, a jakž to přijali na sebe a na símě své, na pamět postů a křiku jejich.

32 A tak výpověd Estery potvrdila ustanovení dnů Purim, což zapsáno jest v knize této.

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 enjoin 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 had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, 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; 24 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; 25 but when the matter came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

26 Wherefore they called these days Purim, after the name of Pur. Therefore because of all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and that which had come unto them, 27 the Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so that it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to the writing thereof, and according to the appointed time thereof, every year; 28 and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the remembrance of them perish from their seed.

29 Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority to confirm this second letter of Purim. 30 And he sent letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth, 31 to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had ordained for themselves and for their seed, in the matter of the fastings and their cry. 32 And the commandment of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.