Esther 9:20-23

20Mordecai recorded these events and sent letters to all the Jews in all of King Ahasuerus’s provinces, both near and far.

21He ordered them to celebrate the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar every year

22because during those days the Jews gained relief from their enemies. That was the month when their sorrow was turned into rejoicing and their mourning into a holiday. They were to be days of feasting, rejoicing, and of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.

23So the Jews agreed to continue the practice they had begun, as Mordecai had written them to do.