id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7002 Esther - Wikipedia .html text/html 5578 752 72 When Mordecai learns of this, he tells Esther to reveal to the king that she is Jewish and ask that he repeal the order. Esther asks that the entire Jewish community fast and pray for three days before she goes to see the king; Mordecai agrees. Ahasuerus allows Esther and Mordecai to draft another order, with the seal of the king and in the name of the king, to allow the Jewish people to defend themselves and fight with their oppressors on the thirteenth day of Adar. Given the great historical link between Persian and Jewish history, modern day Persian Jews are called "Esther's Children". "The Septuagint edition of Esther contains six parts (totaling 107 verses) not found in the Hebrew Bible. What is not generally agreed upon is the identity or nature of that non-Jewish festival which came to be appropriated by the Jews as Purim, and whose motifs are recapitulated in disguised form in Esther." (Polish 1999) ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7002.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7002.txt