⁹ Then ^(A)Harbona, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, said, “Moreover, ^(B)the gallows^[a] that Haman has prepared for Mordecai, ^(C)whose word saved the king, is standing at Haman's house, fifty cubits^[b] high.” And the king said, “Hang him on that.” ^10 (D)So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. ^(E)Then the wrath of the king abated.

The Feast of Purim Inaugurated

²⁰ And Mordecai recorded these things and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far, ²¹ obliging them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fifteenth day of the same, year by year, ²² as the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into ^(A)a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and gifts to the poor.

The Prayer of Faith

¹³ Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him ^(A)sing praise. ¹⁴ Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, ^(B)anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. ¹⁵ And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And ^(C)if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. ¹⁶ Therefore, ^(D)confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, ^(E)that you may be healed. ^(F)The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.^{[a] 17} Elijah was a man ^(G)with a nature like ours, and ^(H)he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for ^(I)three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. ^18 (J)Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.

¹⁹ My brothers, ^(K)if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone ^(L)brings him back, ²⁰ let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from his wandering ^(M)will save his soul from death and ^(N)will cover a multitude of sins.