²And his strength and his empire, and the dignity and greatness wherewith he exalted Mardochai, are written in the books of the Medes, and of the Persians:

³And how Mardochai of the race of the Jews, was next after king Assuerus: and great among the Jews, and acceptable to the people of his brethren, seeking the good of his people, and speaking those things which were for the welfare of his seed.

The rest of the chapters of the book of Esther, which are found neither in the Hebrew, nor in the Chaldee.

⁴Then Mardochai said: God hath done these things.

⁵I remember a dream that I saw, which signified these same things: and nothing thereof hath failed.

⁶The little fountain which grew into a river, and was turned into a light, and into the sun, and abounded into many waters, is Esther, whom the king married, and made queen.

⁷But the two dragons are I and Aman.

⁸The nations that were assembled are they that endeavoured to destroy the name of the Jews.

⁹And my nation is Israel, who cried to the Lord, and the Lord saved his people: and he delivered us from all evils, and hath wrought great signs and wonders among the nations:

¹⁰And he commanded that there should be two lots, one of the people of God, and the other of all the nations.

¹¹And both lots came to the day appointed already from that time before God to all nations:

¹²And the Lord remembered his people, and had mercy on his inheritance.

¹³And these days shall be observed in the month of Adar on the fourteenth, and fifteenth day of the same month, with all diligence, and joy of the people gathered into one assembly, throughout all the generations hereafter of the people of Israel.

Chapter 11

In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemy and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said he was a priest, and of the Levitical race, and Ptolemy his son brought this epistle of Phurim, which they said Lysimachus the son of Ptolemy had interpreted in Jerusalem.

²In the second year of the reign of Artaxerxes the great, in the first day of the month Nisan, Mardochai the son of Jair, the son of Semei, the son of Cis, of the tribe of Benjamin:

³A Jew who dwelt in the city of Susan, a great man and among the first of the king’s court, had a dream.

⁴Now he was of the number of the captives, whom Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away from Jerusalem with Jechonias king of Juda:

⁵And this was his dream: Behold there were voices, and tumults, and thunders, and earthquakes, and a disturbance upon the earth.

⁶And behold two great dragons came forth ready to fight one against another.

⁷And at their cry all nations were stirred up to fight against the nation of the just.

⁸And that was a day of darkness and danger, of tribulation and distress, and great fear upon the earth.

⁹And the nation of the just was troubled fearing their own evils, and was prepared for death.

¹⁰And they cried to God: and as they were crying, a little fountain grew into a very great river, and abounded into many waters.

¹¹The light and the sun rose up, and the humble were exalted, and they devoured the glorious.

¹²And when Mardochai had seen this, and arose out of his bed, he was thinking what God would do: and he kept it fixed in his mind, desirous to know what the dream should signify.

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