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Greek Esther 9:22

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22for on these days the Jews got relief from their enemies. The whole month (namely, Adar) in which their condition had been changed from sorrow into gladness and from a time of distress to a holiday was to be celebrated as a time for feastingk and gladness and for sending presents of food to their friends and to the poor.*

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Footnotes

  1. kGk of weddings

Cross references

  1. *Neh 8:10, 12; Add Esth 8:17

In other versions

KJV 1900King James Version

As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.