In those days Peter stood up among the believers (a gathering of about one hundred and twenty people) and said,

So those who accepted his message were baptized, and that day about three thousand people were added.

And all the prophets, from Samuel and those who followed him, have spoken about and announced these days.

While we remained there for a number of days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea.

You have lived indulgently and luxuriously on the earth. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.

Just as they have done from the day that I brought them up from Egypt until this very day, they have rejected me and have served other gods. This is what they are also doing to you.

Enjoy life with your beloved wife during all the days of your fleeting life that God has given you on earth during all your fleeting days; for that is your reward in life and in your burdensome work on earth.

“‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Are you the one of whom I spoke in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days that I would bring you against them?

And day after day Mordecai used to walk back and forth in front of the court of the harem in order to learn how Esther was doing and what might happen to her.

Day after day when I was with you in the temple courts, you did not arrest me. But this is your hour, and that of the power of darkness!”

“‘When a woman’s discharge of blood flows many days not at the time of her menstruation, or if it flows beyond the time of her menstruation, all the days of her discharge of impurity will be like the days of her menstruation – she is unclean.

For this reason these days are known as Purim, after the name of pur.

On the seventh day they were up at the crack of dawn and marched around the city as before – only this time they marched around it seven times.

“Tell the Israelites, ‘When a woman produces offspring and bears a male child, she will be unclean seven days, as she is unclean during the days of her menstruation.

On the first day of the first month he had determined to make the ascent from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month he arrived at Jerusalem, for the good hand of his God was on him.

who plan ways to harm me. All day long they stir up conflict.

“‘Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy assembly. You must not do any work; it is a Sabbath to the Lord in all the places where you live.

The child grew and was weaned. Abraham prepared a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

But you must be loyal to the Lord your God, as you have been to this very day.

On that day I will carry out against Eli everything that I spoke about his house – from start to finish!