Esther 9:19
King James VersionSource notes
“Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.”
Context
16But the other Jews that in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey,
17On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
18But the Jews that at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth thereof; and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
19Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
20And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, nigh and far,
21To stablish among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
22As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.