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Greek Esther 9:19-21
Common English Bible
Greek Esther 9:19-21
Common English Bible
19 This is why Jews out in the country celebrate the fourteenth of Adar as a holiday, sending gifts of food to their neighbors, but those who live in the big cities celebrate the fifteenth of Adar as a holiday, sending gifts of food to their neighbors.
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20 Mordecai wrote these things down in a scroll and sent copies to the Jews throughout Artaxerxes’ kingdom, both near and far away. 21 He made it a rule that Jews keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of Adar[a] as special days each and every year.
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- Greek Esther 9:21 February–March
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