Esther 9:21-23

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

²¹ To command them to keep the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and also the fifteenth, yearly,

²² As the days on which the Jews got rest from their enemies, and as the month which was turned for them from sorrow to gladness and from mourning into a holiday—that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days of sending choice portions to one another and gifts to the poor.

²³ So the Jews undertook to do as they had begun and as Mordecai had written to them—