Greek Esther 9:19-21

Common English Bible

¹⁹ This is why Jews out in the country celebrate the fourteenth of Adar as a holiday, sending gifts of food to their neighbors, but those who live in the big cities celebrate the fifteenth of Adar as a holiday, sending gifts of food to their neighbors.

The new holiday of Purim

²⁰ Mordecai wrote these things down in a scroll and sent copies to the Jews throughout Artaxerxes’ kingdom, both near and far away. ²¹ He made it a rule that Jews keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of Adar^[a] as special days each and every year.