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Greek Esther 9:21-23
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Greek Esther 9:21-23
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
21 to institute these days as holidays and to keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of Adar,(A) 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.(B)
23 So the Jews accepted what Mordecai had written to them:
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