Esther 9:24–28

²⁴For Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, ^lthe enemy of all the Jews, ^mhad plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and ⁿhad cast Pur (that is, cast lots), to crush and to destroy them. ²⁵But when it came before the king, he gave orders in writing ^othat his evil plan that he had devised against the Jews ^pshould return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. ²⁶Therefore they called these days Purim, after the term ⁿPur. Therefore, because of all that was written in ^qthis letter, and of what they had faced in this matter, and of what had happened to them, ²⁷the Jews firmly obligated themselves and their offspring and ^rall who joined them, that without fail they would keep ^sthese two days according to what was written and at the time appointed every year, ²⁸that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, in every clan, province, and city, and that these days of Purim should never fall into disuse among the Jews, nor should the commemoration of these days cease among their descendants.