Esther 9:17-19

International Standard Version

¹⁷ They did this on the thirteenth day of Adar and rested on the fourteenth day, making it a day of feasting and joy. ¹⁸ The Jewish people in Susa assembled on the thirteenth day and again on the fourteenth, and then rested on the fifteenth day and made it a day of feasting and joy. ¹⁹ Therefore the Jewish people in the rural areas who live in unwalled towns make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a holiday for joy and feasting, and people send presents^[a] to one another.