Holy Scripture
Esther (Greek) 9:19
Source: Septuagint
Original
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.
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17And they rested on the fourteenth of the same month, and kept it as a day of rest with joy and gladness.
18And the Jews in the city Susa assembled also on the fourteenth day and rested; and they kept also the fifteenth with joy and gladness.
— Esther (Greek) 9:19 —
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,
21to establish these as joyful days, and to keep the fourteenth and fifteenth of Adar;