Esther 9:22-24

Holman Christian Standard Bible

²² because during those days the Jews got rid of^[a](A) their enemies. That was the month when their sorrow was turned into rejoicing and their mourning into a holiday.^(B) They were to be days of feasting,^(C) rejoicing, and of sending gifts to one another and the poor.

²³ So the Jews agreed to continue the practice they had begun, as Mordecai had written them to do. ²⁴ For Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews,^(D) had plotted against the Jews to destroy them. He cast the Pur (that is, the lot) to crush and destroy them.^(E)