9:23 So the Jews committed themselves to continue what they had begun to do and to what Mordecai had written to them.
9:29 So Queen Esther, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew wrote with full authority to confirm this second 1 letter about Purim.
1 tc The LXX and the Syriac Peshitta omit the word “second.”