New American Standard Bible 2020

Esther 9:18-20

18But the Jews who were in Susa 1assembled on the thirteenth and 2the fourteenth 3of the same month, and they rested on the fifteenth 4day and made it a day of feasting and rejoicing. 19Therefore the Jews of the rural areas, who live in 5the rural towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a 6 7holiday for rejoicing and feasting and 8sending 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,

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Notes

1. Esther 9:18 Esth 8:11; 9:2 ↩
2. Esther 9:18 Esth 9:21 ↩
3. Esther 9:18 Lit in it ↩
4. Esther 9:18 Lit in it ↩
5. Esther 9:19 Deut 3:5; Zech 2:4 ↩
6. Esther 9:19 Lit rejoicing and feasting and a good day and sending ↩
7. Esther 9:19 Esth 9:22 ↩
8. Esther 9:19 Neh 8:10 ↩

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