Esther 9:19-21

New American Standard Bible

¹⁹ Therefore the Jews of the rural areas, who live in ^(A)the rural towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a ^[a](B)holiday for rejoicing and feasting and ^(C)sending portions of food to one another.

The Feast of Purim Instituted

²⁰ Then Mordecai recorded these events, and he sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far, ²¹ obliging them to celebrate the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day ^[b]of the same month, annually,