24 For Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, ^lthe enemy of all the Jews, ^mhad plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and ⁿhad cast Pur (that is, cast lots), to crush and to destroy them.

26 Therefore they called these days Purim, after the term ⁿPur. Therefore, because of all that was written in ^qthis letter, and of what they had faced in this matter, and of what had happened to them,