Quotes About Tradition

In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or of the other peoples, but could not speak the language of Judah.

I rebuked them and called down curses on them. I beat some of these men and pulled out their hair. Then I made them take an oath before God and said, “You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters as wives for your sons or for yourselves!

Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes.

Then the king consulted the wise men who knew the times, for it was customary for him to confer with the experts in law and justice.

For the conduct of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to despise their husbands and say, ëKing Xerxes ordered Queen Vashti to be brought before him, but she did not come.í

The edict the king issues will be heard throughout his vast kingdom—and so all women, from the least to the greatest, will honor their husbands.”

But he went only as far as the kingís gate, because the law prohibited anyone wearing sackcloth from entering that gate.

Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha.

This was done on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested, making it a day of feasting and joy.

The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and the fourteenth days of the month. So they rested on the fifteenth day, making it a day of feasting and joy.

This is why the rural Jews, who live in the villages, observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting. It is a holiday for sending gifts to one another.

to establish among them an annual celebration on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar

So the Jews agreed to continue the custom they had started, as Mordecai had written to them.

Therefore these days are called Purim, from the word Pur. Because of all the instructions in this letter, and because of all they had seen and experienced,

the Jews bound themselves to establish the custom that they and their descendants and all who join them should not fail to celebrate these two days at the appointed time each and every year, according to their regulation.

These days should be remembered and celebrated by every generation, family, province, and city, so that these days of Purim should not fail to be observed among the Jews, nor should the memory of them fade from their descendants.

in order to confirm these days of Purim at their appointed time, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established them and had committed themselves and their descendants to the times of fasting and lamentation.

So Estherís decree confirmed these regulations about Purim, which were written into the record.

Jobís sons would take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.

Please inquire of past generations and consider the discoveries of their fathers.

Both the gray-haired and the aged are on our side—men much older than your father.

what was declared by wise men and was not concealed from their fathers,

Will you stay on the ancient path that wicked men have trod?