Esther 9:22 BBE

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;

²⁴  Because Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the hater of all the Jews, had made designs for their destruction, attempting to get a decision by Pur (that is, chance) with a view to putting an end to them and cutting them off;