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 \v 16 That happened on the 14th day of the month of Adar. On the following day, the Jews in Susa rested and celebrated. In all the other provinces, the Jewish people gathered together to defend themselves, and they killed seventy-five thousand people who hated them, but again, they took none of their possessions.
 
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-\v 17 On the thirteenth day of the month Adar, and on the fourteenth day, they rested and made that a day of feasting and celebration.
+\v 17 On the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day, they rested and made that a day of feasting and celebration.
 \v 18 But the Jews who were in Susa came together on the thirteenth and the fourteenth days to fight, but on the fifteenth day they rested and made it a day of feasting and celebration.
-\v 19 That is why the Jews of the villages, the Jews who live in the rural towns, observe the fourteenth day of the month Adar as a day of gladness and celebration, when they send gifts of food to one another.
+\v 19 That is why the Jews of the villages, the Jews who live in the rural towns, observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of gladness and celebration, when they send gifts of food to one another.
 
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 \v 20 Mordecai wrote down all the things that had happened. Then he sent letters to the Jews who lived throughout the empire of King Ahasuerus.