This day the ladies of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen’s conduct will speak in the same way to all the king’s princes, and there will be plenty of contempt and anger.

This word pleased the king and the princes, and the king did as Memucan proposed.

the young lady would go in to the king in this way: anything that she desired was given her to take with her from the harem to the king’s palace.

A copy of the edict to be issued as law in every province was published to all the peoples so that they should be ready for this day.

Then Esther summoned Hathach from the king’s eunuchs, whom the king had appointed to attend her, and ordered him to go to Mordecai to learn what this was and why it was.

For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place and you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?”

Esther said, “If it pleases the king, may the king and Haman come this day to the banquet that I have prepared for him.”

Yet all of this does not satisfy me every time I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

The king said, “What honor or dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?” Then the king’s servants who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.”

Esther said, “A foe and an enemy is this wicked Haman!” Then Haman became terrified before the king and queen.

A copy of the edict to be issued as law in each and every province was published to all the peoples, so that the Jews would be ready for this day to avenge themselves on their enemies.

This was done on the thirteenth day of the month Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested and made it a day of feasting and rejoicing.

Therefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. And because of the instructions in this letter, both what they had seen in this regard and what had happened to them,

Then Queen Esther, daughter of Abihail, with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter about Purim.