¹⁹ Then he distributed a loaf of bread, a date cake, and a raisin cake to each one in the entire Israelite community, both men and women.^(A) Then all the people went home.

²² because during those days the Jews gained relief from^(A) their enemies. That was the month when their sorrow was turned into rejoicing and their mourning into a holiday.^(B) They were to be days of feasting,^(C) rejoicing, and of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.