Esther 9:21-23

Revised Geneva Translation

²¹ establishing that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month, Adar, and the fifteenth day, every year,

²² as the days when the Jews rested from their enemies, as the month which was turned from sorrow to joy for them, and from mourning into a joyful day, to keep as days of feasting and joy, and for everyone to send presents to his neighbor, and gifts to the poor.

²³ And the Jews promised to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written to them,