Greek Esther 9:22-24
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised
22 for on these days the Jews got relief from their enemies. The whole month (namely, Adar), in which their condition had been changed from sorrow into gladness and from a time of distress to a holiday, was to be celebrated as a time for feasting[a] and gladness and for sending presents of food to their friends and to the poor.
23 So the Jews accepted what Mordecai had written to them 24 —how Haman son of Hammedatha, the Macedonian,[b] fought against them, how he made a decree and cast lots[c] to destroy them,
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- Greek Esther 9:22 Gk of weddings
- Greek Esther 9:24 Other ancient witnesses read the Bougean
- Greek Esther 9:24 Gk a lot
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