So Queen Esther daughter of Abihail, along with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter concerning Purim.
Mordecai recorded these events and sent letters to all the Jews in all the provinces of King Xerxes, both near and far,
Now Esther was the daughter of Abihail, the uncle from whom Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter. And when it wa
Mordecai wrote in the name of King Xerxes and sealed it with the royal signet ring. He sent the documents by mounted cou
The couriers left, spurred on by the king’s command, and the edict was issued in the citadel of Susa. Then the king and