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Darby's French Translation

Esther 9:23

Et les Juifs acceptèrent de faire ce qu'ils avaient commencé et ce que Mardochée leur avait écrit.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Month;   Purim;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Purim;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Feasts;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Day;   Feasts and Festivals of Israel;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Esther;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Festivals;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Calitas;   Colius;   Eliezer;   Jonas;   Jozabad;   Jozabdus;   Judah;   Judas;   Kelaiah;   Patheus;   Pethahiah;   Purim;   Semeis;   Shimei, Shimeites;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Lots;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for June 23;  

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Les Juifs adoptèrent donc ce qu'ils avaient commencé de faire, et ce que leur avait écrit Mardochée.
Louis Segond (1910)
Les Juifs s'engagèrent à faire ce qu'ils avaient déjà commencé et ce que Mardochée leur écrivit.
La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et chacun des Juifs se soumit à faire ce qu'on avait commencé, et ce que Mardochée leur avait écrit.

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them. They engaged to keep these two days as festivals annually, as they had at this time done; not in a religious but in a civil way, not as parts of religious worship, and as additions to and innovations of the law, but by way of commemoration of a civil benefit which they had received; and yet we find in later times that this was scrupled by some as an innovation; for we are told r that there were eighty five elders, and more than thirty of them prophets, who were distressed about this matter, fearing it was an innovation.

r T. Hieros. Megillah. fol. 70. 4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Esther 9:23. The Jews undertook to do as they had begun — They had already kept the fifteenth day, and some of them in the country the fourteenth also, as a day of rejoicing: Mordecai wrote to them to bind themselves and their successors, and all their proselytes, to celebrate this as an annual feast throughout all their generations; and this they undertook to do. And it has been observed among them, in all places of their dispersion, from that day to the present time, without any interruption.


 
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