Quoting%20commentary for Megillah 1:2

כֵּיצַד. חָל לִהְיוֹת יוֹם אַרְבָּעָה עָשָׂר בַּשֵּׁנִי, כְּפָרִים וַעֲיָרוֹת גְּדוֹלוֹת קוֹרִין בּוֹ בַיּוֹם, וּמֻקָּפוֹת חוֹמָה לְמָחָר. חָל לִהְיוֹת בַּשְּׁלִישִׁי אוֹ בָּרְבִיעִי, כְּפָרִים מַקְדִּימִין לְיוֹם הַכְּנִיסָה וַעֲיָרוֹת גְּדוֹלוֹת קוֹרִין בּוֹ בַיּוֹם, וּמֻקָּפוֹת חוֹמָה לְמָחָר. חָל לִהְיוֹת בָּחֲמִישִׁי, כְּפָרִים וַעֲיָרוֹת גְּדוֹלוֹת קוֹרִין בּוֹ בַיּוֹם, וּמֻקָּפוֹת חוֹמָה לְמָחָר. חָל לִהְיוֹת עֶרֶב שַׁבָּת, כְּפָרִים מַקְדִּימִין לְיוֹם הַכְּנִיסָה, וַעֲיָרוֹת גְּדוֹלוֹת וּמֻקָּפוֹת חוֹמָה קוֹרִין בּוֹ בַיּוֹם. חָל לִהְיוֹת בְּשַׁבָּת, כְּפָרִים וַעֲיָרוֹת גְּדוֹלוֹת מַקְדִּימִין וְקוֹרִין לְיוֹם הַכְּנִיסָה, וּמֻקָּפוֹת חוֹמָה לְמָחָר. חָל לִהְיוֹת אַחַר הַשַּׁבָּת, כְּפָרִים מַקְדִּימִין לְיוֹם הַכְּנִיסָה, וַעֲיָרוֹת גְּדוֹלוֹת קוֹרִין בּוֹ בַיּוֹם, וּמֻקָּפוֹת חוֹמָה לְמָחָר:

How so? If the fourteenth falls on a Monday, the villages and the large cities read on that day, and the walled cities, the next day. If it falls on Tuesday or Wednesday, the villages advance it to the day of assembly, the large cities read it on the fourteenth, and the walled cities, the next day. If it falls on Thursday, the villages and the large cities read on that day, and the walled cities, the next day. If it falls on Sabbath eve, the villages advance it to the day of assembly, and the large cities and the walled cities read it on that day. [For there is no Megillah reading on the Sabbath, a decree lest he take the Megillah in his hand and carry it four cubits in the public domain. And if it were delayed until Sunday, that would make it the sixteenth, whereas Scripture states: "and (the fifteenth) not to be passed by." And even though those in the walled cities read it on the fourteenth when the fifteenth falls out on a Sabbath, still, they read "Vayavo Amalek" only on Shabbath, which is the fifteenth, they read "Pakadeti" as the haftarah, and they review the halachoth of Purim that entire Shabbath. As to the Purim feast — some say they have it on the fourteenth, when they read the Megillah; and others, that they delay it until after Shabbath. And so it would appear from the Yerushalmi — that a Purim feast which falls on Shabbath is delayed and not advanced. But all agree that it is not made on Shabbath.] If it falls on Sunday, the villages advance it to the day of assembly, [which is the eleventh], the large cities read it on that day, and the walled cities, on the next day. [The sages allowed the villages to advance it to the day of assembly only when Israel are on their land and messengers of beth-din go out to inform them when beth-din sanctified the New Moon and when Pesach falls. But nowadays, when the people count thirty days from the Megillah reading until Pesach — if the villagers advanced their reading, they would observe Pesach thirty days after the reading and would be eating chametz the last days of Pesach, for which reason it is read only in its time.]

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