Esther 9:18-20

Orthodox Jewish Bible

¹⁸ But the Yehudim that were at Shushan assembled together on the 13^th day thereof, and on the 14^th thereof, and on the 15^th day of the same they rested, and made it a yom mishteh and simcha.

¹⁹ Therefore the Yehudim of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the 14^th day of the month Adar a simcha and mishteh, and a yontef, and of sending presents each one to his neighbor.

²⁰ And Mordechai wrote these things, and sent seferim unto all the Yehudim that were in all the provinces of HaMelech Achashverosh, both near and far,