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.