King Ahasuerus then made Mordecai one of the king's advisers. The king also drew off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai.

Then Esther begged the king to prevent the evil that Haman had planned against the Jews. King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai:
"Write in behalf of the Jews in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring; for what is written in the king's name and sealed with the king's ring no one may disobey."

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Thus Mordecai did. And he sent by messengers, who rode the king's swift horses, mules, and camels, the king's command that the Jews who were in every city should gather together and protect their lives. Mordecai told them to keep the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and the fifteenth day also, each year, the days on which the Jews were saved from their enemies, and the month which was turned for them from one of sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents to each other and gifts to the poor.

The command was also given out in the royal palace at Shushan; and Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal garments of violet and white and with a great crown of gold and with a robe of fine linen and purple. The people of Shushan shouted and were glad. To the Jews there came light and gladness, joy and honor. And in every city and country, where the king's command came, there was gladness and joy among the Jews, and a holiday.

On the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, the Jews rested and made it a day of feasting and rejoicing. Therefore the Jews keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar as the day of rejoicing and feasting and a holiday, and as a day on which they send gifts to one another. But the Jews in Shushan rested on the fifteenth day of the same month and made it a day of feasting and rejoicing.