Esther 9:20-26

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 1of the same month, annually, 22because on those days the Jews 2rid themselves of their enemies, and it was a month which was 3turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a 4holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and rejoicing and 5sending portions of food to one another and gifts to the poor.

23Thus the Jews undertook what they had started to do, and what Mordecai had written to them. 24For Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the adversary of all the Jews, had schemed against the Jews to destroy them and 6had cast Pur, that is the lot, to disturb them and destroy them. 25But 7when it came 8to the king’s attention, he commanded by letter 9that his wicked scheme which he had 10devised against the Jews, 11should return on his own head and that he and his sons should be hanged on the 12gallows. 26Therefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. 13And 14because of the instructions in this letter, both what they had seen in this regard and what had happened to them,