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The Book of Esther, Chapter 9, Verse 32

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To confirm these days of Purim in their times [appointed], according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.
King James Version
And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.
American Standard Version
And the commandment of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.
New English Translation
Esther’s command established these matters of Purim, and the matter was officially recorded.
World English Bible
The commandment of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.
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And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and [upon] the isles of the sea.
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And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, [are] they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
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For Mordecai the Jew [was] next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.
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There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name [was] Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
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And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.
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His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.
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And his sons went and feasted [in their] houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.
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And it was so, when the days of [their] feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings [according] to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.
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Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.
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And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.