Greek Esther 9:21-23

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²¹ telling them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of Adar, ²² for on these days the Jews got relief from their enemies. The whole month (namely, Adar), in which their condition had been changed from sorrow into gladness and from a time of distress to a holiday, was to be celebrated as a time for feasting^[a] and gladness and for sending presents of food to their friends and to the poor.

²³ So the Jews accepted what Mordecai had written to them