And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;
WEB
So the Jews agreed to continue the custom they had started, as Mordecai had written to them.
YLT
And the Jews have received that which they had begun to do, and that which Mordecai hath written unto them,
DBT
And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written to them.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentEsther — A Jewish orphan becomes queen of Persia; Haman plots genocide; Mordecai and Esther intervene; deliverance comes by providence — and God's name never once appears in the book.
- Author
- Anonymous; some rabbinic tradition attributes to Mordecai
- Date
- Events c. 483–473 BC, during Xerxes I's reign (Heb. Ahasuerus); compilation 4th–5th century BC