Esther 9:21
Esther chapter 9 · verse 21 in three public-domain English translations with scriptural context
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
KJV
King James Version · 1611To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
Context
v.20And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far,
v.21This passage
v.22as the days wherein the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.