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For the Iewes that were in Shushan, gathered themselues together on the fourteenth day also of the moneth Adar, and slewe three hundred men at Shushan: but on the pray they laid not their hand.

But the other Iewes that were in the kings prouinces, gathered themselues together, & stood for their liues, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seuenty and fiue thousand, but they laid not their handes on the pray.

Wherefore they called these dayes Purim, after the name of Pur: therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seene concerning this matter, and which had come vnto them,

To confirme these dayes of Purim, in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Iew, and Esther the Queene had enioyned them, and as they had decreed for themselues and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.

For Mordecai the Iew was next vnto King Ahasuerus, and great among the Iewes, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.

And his sonnes went and feasted in their houses, euery one his day, and sent and called for their three sisters, to eate and to drinke with them.

And it was so, when the dayes of their feasting were gone about, that Iob sent and sanctified them, and rose vp early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: For Iob said, It may be that my sonnes haue sinned, and cursed God in their hearts: Thus did Iob continually.

Then Satan answered ye Lord, and sayd, Doeth Iob feare God for nought?

And Satan answered the Lord, and said, Skinne for skinne, yea all that a man hath, wil he giue for his life.

Now when Iobs three friends heard of all this euill, that was come vpon him, they came euery one from his owne place: Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; for they had made an appointment together to come to mourne with him, and to comfort him.

So they sate downe with him vpon the ground seuen dayes, and seuen nights, and none spake a word vnto him; for they saw that his griefe was very great.

As for that night, let darkenesse seaze vpon it, let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yeere, let it not come into the number of the moneths.

Let the starres of the twilight thereof be darke, let it looke for light, but haue none, neither let it see the dawning of the day:

For now should I haue lien still and beene quiet, I should haue slept; then had I bene at rest,

With Kings and counsellers of the earth, which built desolate places for themselues,

Which long for death, but it commeth not, and dig for it more then for hid treasures:

For my sighing commeth before I eate, and my roarings are powred out like the waters.

For the thing which I greatly feared is come vpon me, and that which I was afraid of, is come vnto me.

The old Lyon perisheth for lacke of pray, and the stout Lyons whelpes are scattered abroad.

They are destroyed from morning to euening: they perish for euer, without any regarding it.