to establish among them that they should celebrate yearly the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar,
Parallel translations
- WEB to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month Adar yearly,
- KJV To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
- BSB to establish among them an annual celebration on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar
- NASB obliging them to celebrate the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same month, annually,
- NLT calling on them to celebrate an annual festival on these two days.
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Mordecai instructs the Jews to keep the fourteenth and fifteenth of Adar every year. Both days are joined into one annual festival.
Overview
By appointing both days, Mordecai unites the provincial and capital observances into a single, inclusive celebration for all Jews. The yearly repetition embeds remembrance into the community's calendar, much as Israel's other appointed feasts marked God's saving acts. Purim thus becomes a perpetual witness to deliverance, retold to each generation.
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