Esther (Greek) 9:18

¹⁶And the rest of the Jews who were in the kingdom assembled, and helped one another, and obtained rest from their enemies: for they destroyed fifteen thousand of them on the thirteenth day of Adar, but took no spoil.

¹⁷And they rested on the fourteenth of the same month, and kept it as a day of rest with joy and gladness.

— Esther (Greek) 9:18 —

¹⁹On this account then it is that the Jews dispersed in every foreign land keep the fourteenth of Adar as a holy day with joy, sending portions each to his neighbor.

²⁰And Mordecai wrote these things in a book, and sent them to the Jews, as many as were in the kingdom of Artaxerxes, both them that were near and them that were afar off,