Esther 9:20-22

Holman Christian Standard Bible

²⁰ Mordecai^(A) recorded these events and sent letters to all the Jews in all of King Ahasuerus’s provinces, both near and far. ²¹ He ordered^(B) them to celebrate the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month Adar every year ²² because during those days the Jews got rid of^[a](C) their enemies. That was the month when their sorrow was turned into rejoicing and their mourning into a holiday.^(D) They were to be days of feasting,^(E) rejoicing, and of sending gifts to one another and the poor.