Esther 9:26

They called these days Purim Namely, these two festival days; after the name Pur A Persian word signifying a lot. For all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen, and which had come unto them Because of what was contained in the letter of Mordecai, and the respect which they justly bore to it; and because of what they themselves had seen, when these things happened, and God so wonderfully delivered them; and of what they heard reported concerning these matters, in the places where they could not see them, they unanimously consented to keep a yearly festival in commemoration of them, as it follows in the next verse.