Esther 9:24–28

²⁴because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, ^ahad devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them; ²⁵but when ^bEsther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should ^creturn upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. ²⁶Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of ^dthis letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them, ²⁷the Jews ^wordained, and ^ztook upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as ^ejoined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep ^fthese two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year; ²⁸and 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.