19 Then he distributed a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake to each one in the entire Israelite community, both men and women.(A) Then all the people left, each to his own home.

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22 because during those days the Jews got rid of[a](A) their enemies. That was the month when their sorrow was turned into rejoicing and their mourning into a holiday.(B) They were to be days of feasting,(C) rejoicing, and of sending gifts to one another and the poor.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 9:22 Lit Jews gained relief from

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