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These days, therefore, have been called Purim after the word pur. Because of this written order and of what they had seen and experienced, (Esther 9, 26)
Commemorated and celebrated thus, in every family, province and city, through all generations, these days of Purim were never to fall into disuse among the Jews nor into oblivion among their descendants. (Esther 9, 28)
Queen Esther, daughter of Abihail, along with the Jew Mordecai, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter concerning Purim. (Esther 9, 29)
enjoining them to observe these days of Purim at the designated time, as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had decreed and just as the Jews had prescribed for themselves and their descendants, with respect to their duty of fasting and lamentation. (Esther 9, 31)
Esther's decree fixed these practices of Purim, and it was recorded in the book. (Esther 9, 32)
In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemy and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who affirmed he was a priest and a Levite, and his son Ptolemy brought to Egypt the foregoing letter concerning the Purim, maintaining that it was genuine and had been translated by Lysimachus, Ptolemy's son and a resident of Jerusalem. (Esther 11, 1)
