Thematic Bible: Mode of celebrating

In the thirteenth day to the month Adar, and resting in the fourteenth in it, and making it a day of drinking and gladness. And the Jews that were in Shushan were assembled in the thirteenth in it, and in the fourteenth in it; and resting in the fifteenth in it, and making it a day of drinking and gladness. For this the Jews of the villages and in cities of the open country making the fourteenth day to the month Adar, gladness and drinking, and a good day, and sending portions a man to his neighbor.

As the days which the Jews rested in them from their enemies, and the month that was turned to them from grief to gladness, and from mourning to a good day, to make them days of drinking and gladness, and sending portions a man to his neighbor, and gifts to the needy. Verse ConceptsOvercoming EnemiesPeople Providing FoodRejoicing In God's Works