Greek Esther 9:20-22

Common English Bible

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. ²² They are the days on which the Jews found rest from their enemies. The whole of Adar, the month in which sadness was turned into joy and mournful weeping into a holiday, was to be celebrated as a special time for weddings, for parties, and for sending gifts of food to friends and to the poor.