20 Mordechajas visa tai surašė ir laiškus žydams išsiuntinėjo visoje karaliaus Ahasvero karalystėje, arti ir toli.

21 Jis ragino žydus kiekvienais metais švęsti adaro mėnesio keturioliktą ir penkioliktą dienas,

22 kaip žydų išlaisvinimo iš jų priešų dienas, nes jų liūdesys virto džiaugsmu, dejonėsdžiūgavimu. Tomis dienomis jie turėtų džiaugtis, puotauti, dalintis maistu ir beturčiams siųsti dovanų.

23 Žydai pradėjo taip daryti, kaip Mordechajas buvo jiems nurodęs.

24 Nes agagas Hamanas, Hamedatos sūnus, žydų priešas, buvo sumanęs sunaikinti žydus ir metė Pur, tai yra burtą, kad juos sunaikintų ir išžudytų.

25 Kai Estera atėjo pas karalių, jis įsakė raštu, kad Hamano piktas sumanymas kristų ant jo paties galvosjis ir jo sūnūs buvo pakarti.

26 Tas dienas nuo žodžio Pur jie vadina Purimu. Todėl pagal visus šio laiško žodžius, pagal tai, ką jie patys matė ir patyrė,

27 žydai nusprendė, kad kiekvienais metais tuo pačiu laiku tas dvi dienas turi prisiminti visi žydai, jų palikuonys ir visi, prisijungę prie jų.

28 Tos dienos turi būti švenčiamos visose šeimose, visuose miestuose ir visose kartose. Purimo dienos neturi pranykti iš žydų papročių nei prisiminimas apie jas tarp jų palikuonių.

29 Karalienė Estera, Abihailo duktė, ir žydas Mordechajas rašė antrą laišką dėl Purimo.

30 Jie išsiuntinėjo laiškus žydams į šimtą dvidešimt septynis karaliaus Ahasvero kraštus su taikos ir tiesos žodžiais,

31 kad paragintų švęsti Purimo dienas nustatytu laiku, kurį nurodė žydas Mordechajas ir karalienė Estera. Ir jie patys paskyrė sau pasninkus ir verksmo dienas.

32 Karalienės Esteros įsakymas patvirtino Purimo šventę ir yra užrašytas knygoje.

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.