17 In every province and every city, wherever the king’s command and his law reached, joy and rejoicing took place among the Jews. There was a celebration and a holiday.[a](A) And many of the ethnic groups of the land professed themselves to be Jews because fear of the Jews(B) had overcome them.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 8:17 Lit good day

17 In every province and in every city to which the edict of the king came, there was joy(A) and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many people of other nationalities became Jews because fear(B) of the Jews had seized them.(C)

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No foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord
should say,
“The Lord will exclude me from His people”;(A)
and the eunuch should not say,
“Look, I am a dried-up tree.”(B)

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Let no foreigner(A) who is bound to the Lord say,
    “The Lord will surely exclude me from his people.”(B)
And let no eunuch(C) complain,
    “I am only a dry tree.”

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And the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord
minister to Him, love the name of Yahweh
and become His servants,
all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it
and who hold firmly to My covenant—

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And foreigners(A) who bind themselves to the Lord
    to minister(B) to him,
to love the name(C) of the Lord,
    and to be his servants,
all who keep the Sabbath(D) without desecrating it
    and who hold fast to my covenant—

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11 “Many nations will join themselves to the Lord on that day and become My[a] people.(A) I will dwell among you, and you will know that the Lord of Hosts has sent Me[b] to you.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 2:11 LXX, Syr read His
  2. Zechariah 2:11 Or me

11 “Many nations will be joined with the Lord in that day and will become my people.(A) I will live among you and you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to you.(B)

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