Esther 9:23

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

So the Jews adopted as a custom what they had begun to do, as Mordecai had written to them.

Cross References

Esther 9:22

as the days on which the Jews gained relief from their enemies and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday, that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and presents to the poor.

Esther 9:24

For Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast Pur—that is, “the lot”—to crush and to destroy them,