Esther 9:18-20

Expanded Bible

The Feast of Purim

¹⁸ But the Jews in Susa ·met [assembled] on the thirteenth and fourteenth days of the month of Adar [^Cand killed their enemies]. Then they rested on the fifteenth day and made it a day of joyful feasting [banqueting].

¹⁹ This is why the Jews who live in the country and small villages celebrate on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar [^CMarch 8]. It is a ·day [holiday] of joyful ·feasting [banqueting] and a day for exchanging ·gifts [gifts of food].

²⁰ Mordecai ·wrote down [recorded] everything that had happened. Then he sent ·letters [dispatches; scrolls] to all the Jews in all the ·empire [provinces] of King ·Xerxes [^LAhasuerus], far and near.