Esther 11:1

In * the fourth year of the reign of aPtolemeus and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said he was a priest and Levite, and Ptolemeus his son, brought this epistle of bPhurim, which they said was the same, and that Lysimachus the son of Ptolemeus, that was in Jerusalem, had interpreted it.

*	[B.C. 177].
a	1 Macc. 1. 18. & 10. 51, 55, 57. & 11. 3, 8, 13, 15, 17, 18. 2 Macc. 4. 21. [Joseph. Antiq. lib. 13. cap. 3].
b	ch. 9. 26, 28, 29.