15
For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth*day also of the monthAdar, and slewthreehundredmen at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.
16
But the otherJews that were in the king'sprovinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foesseventy and fivethousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey,
18
But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenthday thereof, and on the fourteenththereof; and on the fifteenthday of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
19
Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalledtowns,made the fourteenth*day of the monthAdar a day of gladness and feasting, and a goodday, and of sendingportionsone to another.
22
As the days wherein the Jewsrested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a goodday: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sendingportionsone to another, and gifts to the poor.
24
Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had castPur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;