Esther 9:22-24

New American Standard Bible 1995

²² because on those days the Jews ^[a]rid themselves of their enemies, and it was a month which was ^(A)turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a ^[b]holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and rejoicing and ^(B)sending portions of food to one another and gifts to the poor.

²³ Thus the Jews undertook what they had started to do, and what Mordecai had written to them. ²⁴ For Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the adversary of all the Jews, had schemed against the Jews to destroy them and ^(C)had cast Pur, that is the lot, to disturb them and destroy them.