Esther 9:18-20

New King James Version

The Feast of Purim

¹⁸ But the Jews who were at ^[a]Shushan assembled together ^(A)on the thirteenth day, as well as on the fourteenth; and on the fifteenth of ^[b]the month they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness. ¹⁹ Therefore the Jews of the villages who dwelt in the unwalled towns celebrated the fourteenth day of the month of Adar ^(B)with gladness and feasting, ^(C)as a holiday, and for ^(D)sending presents to one another.

²⁰ And Mordecai wrote these things and sent letters to all the Jews, near and far, who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus,