Esther 9:21

In context

19That is why the Jews of the open country, those who live in the unwalled towns, keep the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of joy and banqueting, a holiday, and of sending portions of food to one another. 20Mordecai wrote these things down and sent letters to all the Jews in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, near and far, 21binding them to keep the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and the fifteenth day, year after year, 22as the days on which the Jews gained relief from their enemies, and as the month that was turned around for them from sorrow to joy and from mourning to a holiday — to make them days of banqueting and joy, of sending portions of food to one another and gifts to the poor. 23So the Jews took upon themselves what they had begun to do, and what Mordecai had written to them.