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36 By public vote it was unanimously decreed never to allow that day to pass unobserved, but to celebrate it on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, called Adar in Aramaic,[a] the eve of Mordecai’s day.

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  1. 2 Maccabees 15:36 Adar in Aramaic: the last month of the Jewish year, corresponding approximately with our month of March. “Nicanor’s Day” was celebrated until A.D. 70 (when the Romans destroyed the temple) together with the “feast of Mordecai,” that is, Purim (Est 9:17-32).