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Esther 3:7

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¶ In the first month, that [is], the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that [is], the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, [to] the twelfth [month], that [is], the month Adar.

In the first {H7223} month {H2320}, that is, the month {H2320} Nisan {H5212}, in the twelfth {H8147}{H6240} year {H8141} of king {H4428} Ahasuerus {H325}, they cast {H5307} Pur {H6332}, that is, the lot {H1486}, before {H6440} Haman {H2001} from day {H3117} to day {H3117}, and from month {H2320} to month {H2320}, to the twelfth {H8147}{H6240} month, that is, the month {H2320} Adar {H143}.

In the first month, the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of Achashverosh, they began throwing pur (that is, they cast lots) before Haman every day and every month until the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.

In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, the Pur (that is, the lot) was cast before Haman to determine a day and month. And the lot fell on the twelfth month, the month of Adar.

In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.

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Cross-References

  • Ezra 6:15 (4 votes)

    And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.

  • Ezekiel 21:21 (3 votes)

    For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made [his] arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.

  • Ezekiel 21:22 (3 votes)

    At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint [battering] rams against the gates, to cast a mount, [and] to build a fort.

  • Proverbs 16:33 (3 votes)

    ¶ The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof [is] of the LORD.

  • Esther 9:24 (3 votes)

    Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that [is], the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;

  • Esther 9:26 (3 votes)

    Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and [of that] which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them,

  • Esther 9:17 (2 votes)

    On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.