17 This was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar. And on the fourteenth of the month they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
The Feast of Purim
18 But the Jews who were at1 Shushan assembled together aon the thirteenth day, as well as on the fourteenth; and on the fifteenth of2 the month they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
19 Therefore the Jews of the villages who dwelt in the unwalled towns celebrated the fourteenth day of the month of Adar awith gladness and feasting, bas a holiday, and for csending presents to one another.
20 And Mordecai wrote these things and sent letters to all the Jews, near and far, who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus,
21 to establish among them that they should celebrate yearly the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar,
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Cross-references and similar verses for Esther 9:19:
gladness.
Deuteronomy 16:11
Deuteronomy 16:14
Nehemiah 8:10
Esther 8:17
Esther 9:22
Psalms 118:11
Luke 11:41
Revelation 11:10
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