Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

And for their seed

The fastings

Bible References

And for their seed

Esther 9:27
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;

The fastings

Esther 4:3
And in every part of the kingdom, wherever the king's word and his order came, there was great sorrow among the Jews, and weeping and crying and going without food; and numbers of them were stretched on the earth covered with dust and haircloth.
Jonah 3:2
Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and give it the word which I have given you.

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain