17 This was (A)on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested and made that a day of feasting and gladness. 18 But the Jews who were in Susa gathered (B)on the thirteenth day and on the fourteenth, and rested (C)on the fifteenth day, making that a day of feasting and gladness. 19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in (D)the rural towns, hold the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day for gladness and feasting, as (E)a holiday, and (F)as a day on which they send gifts of food to one another.

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