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.
[32] And the decree of Esther confirmed
these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.
Esth.10
[1] And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea.
[2] And all the
acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king
advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
[3]
For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the
multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.