And the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen's act, will say it this day to all the king's princes, and there will be contempt and anger enough.

For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there arise relief and deliverance to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall perish. And who knows whether thou art not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

And Esther said, If it seem good to the king, let the king and Haman come this day to the banquet that I have prepared for him.

Yet all this is of no avail to me so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.

And the king said, What honour and dignity has been done to Mordecai for this? And the king's servants that attended upon him said, Nothing has been done for him.

And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.

And Esther said, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews that are in Shushan to do to-morrow also according to this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.

to establish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,

Therefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore, according to all the words of this letter, and for what they had seen concerning this matter and what had happened to them,

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