²² as the days on which the Jews had rest from their enemies, as the month which was turned from sorrow to joy for them, and from mourning to a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and joy, of ^(A)sending presents to one another and gifts to the ^(B)poor.

¹⁰ They desired only that we should remember the poor, ^(A)the very thing which I also was eager to do.

Fall of the King of Babylon

³ It shall come to pass in the day the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear and the hard bondage in which you were made to serve,

¹⁹ Therefore the Jews of the villages who dwelt in the unwalled towns celebrated the fourteenth day of the month of Adar ^(A)with gladness and feasting, ^(B)as a holiday, and for ^(C)sending presents to one another.

⁴⁴ Now all who believed were together, and ^(A)had all things in common, ⁴⁵ and ^[a]sold their possessions and goods, and ^(B)divided^[b] them among all, as anyone had need.

^46 (C)So continuing daily with one accord ^(D)in the temple, and ^(E)breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart,

²⁰ Most assuredly, I say to you that you will weep and ^(A)lament, but the world will rejoice; and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into ^(B)joy. ^21 (C)A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come; but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world. ²² Therefore you now have sorrow; but I will see you again and ^(D)your heart will rejoice, and your joy no one will take from you.

^41 (A)But rather give alms of ^[a]such things as you have; then indeed all things are clean to you.