23 So the Jews accepted the custom which they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them,

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23 So the Jews agreed to continue the celebration they had begun, doing what Mordecai had written to them.

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25 but (A)when [a]Esther came before the king, he commanded by letter that [b]this wicked plot which Haman had devised against the Jews should (B)return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

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  1. Esther 9:25 Lit. she or it
  2. Esther 9:25 Lit. his

25 But when the plot came to the king’s attention,[a] he issued written orders that the evil scheme Haman had devised against the Jews should come back onto his own head,(A) and that he and his sons should be impaled(B) on poles.(C)

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  1. Esther 9:25 Or when Esther came before the king