Esther 9:21 BBE

¹⁹  So the Jews of the country places living in unwalled towns make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of feasting and joy and a good day, a day for sending offerings one to another.

²⁰  And Mordecai sent letters to all the Jews in every division of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, near and far,

²¹  Ordering them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and the fifteenth day of the same month, every year,

²²  As days on which the Jews had rest from their haters, and the month which for them was turned from sorrow to joy, and from weeping to a good day: and that they were to keep them as days of feasting and joy, of sending offerings to one another and good things to the poor.

²³  And the Jews gave their word to go on as they had been doing and as Mordecai had given them orders in writing;