Esther 9:22-24

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²² as the days on which the Jewish people enjoyed relief^[a] from their enemies. It was a month when things turned around for them, from sorrow to joy and from mourning to a holiday. They were to celebrate these days as days of feasting and joy, and they were to send presents^[b] to one another and gifts to the poor. ²³ So the Jewish people made a tradition^[c] out of what they had begun to do and of what Mordecai had written to them, ²⁴ since Hammedatha’s son Haman, the enemy of the Jewish people, had plotted against the Jewish people to destroy them, and he had cast the pur (that is, the lot) to determine when^[d] to confuse and destroy them.