The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their {appointed} time every year; {fail: Heb. pass}

And {that} these days {should be} remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and {that} these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed. {fail: Heb. pass} {perish: Heb. be ended}

And he sent the letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, {with} words of peace and truth,

To confirm these days of Purim in their times {appointed}, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry. {themselves: Heb. their souls}