21 obliging them to celebrate the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day [a]of the same month, annually, 22 because on those days the Jews [b]rid themselves of their enemies, and it was a month which was (A)turned for them from grief into joy, and from mourning into a [c]holiday; that they were to make them days of feasting and rejoicing, and (B)sending portions of food to one another, and gifts to the poor.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 9:21 Lit in it
  2. Esther 9:22 Lit had rest from
  3. Esther 9:22 Lit good day

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