New American Standard Bible 1995

Esther 9:16-22

16Now 1the rest of the Jews who were in the king’s provinces 2assembled, to defend their lives and 3rid themselves of their enemies, and kill 75,000 of those who hated them; but they did not lay their hands on the plunder. 17This was done on 4the thirteenth day of the month Adar, and 5on the fourteenth 6day they rested and made it a day of feasting and rejoicing.

18But the Jews who were in Susa 7assembled on the thirteenth and 8the fourteenth 9of the same month, and they rested on the fifteenth 10day and made it a day of feasting and rejoicing. 19Therefore the Jews of the rural areas, who live in 11the rural towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a 12 13holiday for rejoicing and feasting and 14sending portions of food to one another.

20Then Mordecai recorded these events, and he sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far, 21obliging them to celebrate the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day 15of the same month, annually, 22because on those days the Jews 16rid themselves of their enemies, and it was a month which was 17turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a 18holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and rejoicing and 19sending portions of food to one another and gifts to the poor.

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1. Esther 9:16 Esth 9:2 ↩
2. Esther 9:16 Lev 26:7, 8; Esth 8:11 ↩
3. Esther 9:16 Lit have rest from ↩
4. Esther 9:17 Esth 9:1 ↩
5. Esther 9:17 Esth 9:21 ↩
6. Esther 9:17 Lit in it ↩
7. Esther 9:18 Esth 8:11; 9:2 ↩
8. Esther 9:18 Esth 9:21 ↩
9. Esther 9:18 Lit in it ↩
10. Esther 9:18 Lit in it ↩
11. Esther 9:19 Deut 3:5; Zech 2:4 ↩
12. Esther 9:19 Lit rejoicing and feasting and a good day and sending ↩
13. Esther 9:19 Esth 9:22 ↩
14. Esther 9:19 Neh 8:10 ↩
15. Esther 9:21 Lit in it ↩
16. Esther 9:22 Lit had rest from ↩
17. Esther 9:22 Ps 30:11 ↩
18. Esther 9:22 Lit good day ↩
19. Esther 9:22 Neh 8:12 ↩

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