Esther 9:17-19

English Standard Version

¹⁷ This was ^(A)on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested and made that a day of feasting and gladness. ¹⁸ But the Jews who were in Susa gathered ^(B)on the thirteenth day and on the fourteenth, and rested ^(C)on the fifteenth day, making that a day of feasting and gladness. ¹⁹ Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in ^(D)the rural towns, hold the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day for gladness and feasting, as ^(E)a holiday, and ^(F)as a day on which they send gifts of food to one another.