Esther 9:19-21
1599 Geneva Bible
19 Therefore the Jews of the villages that dwelt in the unwalled towns, [a]kept the fourteenth day of the month Adar with joy and feasting, even a joyful day, and everyone sent presents unto his neighbor.
20 ¶ And Mordecai wrote [b]these words, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were through all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, both near and far,
21 Enjoining them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, every year.
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- Esther 9:19 As the Jews do even to this day, calling it in the Persian language Purim, that is, the day of lots.
- Esther 9:20 The Jews gather hereof that Mordecai wrote this story: but it seemeth that he wrote but only these letters and decrees that follow.
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