Esther 9:22 YLT

²⁰  And Mordecai writeth these things, and sendeth letters unto all the Jews who 'are' in all provinces of the king Ahasuerus, who are near and who are far off,

²¹  to establish on them, to be keeping the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and the fifteenth day of it, in every year and year,

²²  as days on which the Jews have rested from their enemies, and the month that hath been turned to them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning to a good day, to make them days of banquet and of joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the needy.

²³  And the Jews have received that which they had begun to do, and that which Mordecai hath written unto them,

²⁴  because Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, adversary of all the Jews, had devised concerning the Jews to destroy them, and had caused to fall Pur -- that 'is' the lot -- to crush them and to destroy them;