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• PurBible

  Pur is a word meaning "lot." In the Book of Esther it refers to the lot that Haman cast to fix the day for destroying the Jews, and the Jewish festival of Purim takes its name from it.

• AdarBible

  Adar is the twelfth month of the calendar the Jews used after the Babylonian exile and is mentioned in the books of Ezra and Esther. The Feast of Purim is observed on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of this month.

• Esther 9Bible

  Esther 9 records how, on the thirteenth day of the month Adar, the Jews prevailed over the enemies who had sought to harm them, and how Mordecai and Esther established Purim as a feast to be kept every year in commemoration.

• Esther 10Bible

  Esther 10 is the final chapter of the Book of Esther, a brief conclusion describing the power of King Ahasuerus and how Mordecai the Jew, who rose to a position second only to the king, worked for the welfare and peace of his people.

• PuritansHistory

  The Puritans were Protestants active in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Regarding the reformation of the established church (the Church of England) as incomplete, they sought to "purify" its worship, church polity, and daily life more thoroughly in accordance with Scripture.

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Verses in the King James Version 5, showing 5

• Esther 9:26

  Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them,

• Esther 9:28

  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 memorial of them perish from their seed.

• Esther 9:29

  Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim.

• Esther 9:31

  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.

• Esther 9:32

  And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.

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