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to enjoin those who they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
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Formalizing the Celebration
Commentators note that Mordecai's decree formalized a celebration that had already begun spontaneously. The Jews in the provinces had celebrated on the 14th, and those in Susa on the 15th. This command unified the observance into a two-day festival to be kept yearly, establishing it as a permanent memorial for all future generations.
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19th Century
Anglican
And the fifteenth day of the same. —The Jews in the provinces had already made the fourteenth day a day of gladness and f…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
To stablish this among them That it might be a settled thing, and annually observed in all future generations, what …
Presbyterian
The observance of the Jewish feasts is a public declaration of the truth of the Old Testament Scriptures. And as the Old Testament Scriptures are t…
