Esther 8:17
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17 In every province and every city where the king’s command and edict reached, gladness and joy 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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- 8:17 Lit good day
Isaiah 58:5
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5 Will the fast I choose be like this:
A day for a person to deny himself,
to bow his head like a reed,
and to spread out sackcloth and ashes?(A)
Will you call this a fast
and a day acceptable to the Lord?
Daniel 9:3
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3 So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek him by prayer and petitions, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.(A)
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Jonah 3:5-6
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5 Then the people of Nineveh believed God. They proclaimed a fast(A) and dressed in sackcloth – from the greatest of them to the least.
6 When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth,(B) and sat in ashes.
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