22 as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.
Esther 9:22
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Greek Esther 9:21–23
21 to establish these as joyful days and to keep the fourteenth and fifteenth of Adar; (WEB) 22 for on these days the Jews obtained rest from their enemies; and in that month, which was Adar, in which a change was made for them from mourning to joy, and from sorrow to a h… (WEB)
Esther 8:15–17
15 Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal garments of blue and white, with a large gold crown and a purple robe of fine linen. And the city of Susa shouted and rejoiced. 16 For the Jews it was a time of light and gladness, of joy and honor. 17 In every…
Greek Esther 10:12–14
12 God remembered his people and vindicated his inheritance. (WEB) 13 They shall observe these days in the month Adar, on the fourteenth and on the fifteenth day of the month, with an assembly, joy, and gladness before God, throughout the generations forever among his peo… (WEB)
3 Maccabees 6:35–37
35 But the Jews, as we just said, instituted a dance, and then gave themselves up to feasting, glad thanksgiving, and psalms. (WEB) 36 They made a public ordinance to commemorate these things for generations to come, as long as they should be sojourners. They thus establi… (WEB)
Esther 9:17–19
17 This was done on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested, making it a day of feasting and joy. 18 The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and the fourteenth days of the month. So they rested on the fifteen…
Greek Esther 8:15–17
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Esther 9:30–32
30 And Mordecai sent letters with words of peace and truth to all the Jews in the 127 provinces of the kingdom of Xerxes, 31 in order to confirm these days of Purim at their appointed time, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established them and had commi…
1 Maccabees 10:33–35
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