Greek Esther 10:4–11:1

Mordecai’s Dream Fulfilled

^4qAnd Mordecai said, “These things have come from God, ⁵for I remember the dream that I had concerning these matters, and none of them has failed to be fulfilled.^{* 6}There was the little spring that became a river, and there was light and sun and abundant water. The river is Esther, whom the king married and made queen. ⁷The two dragons are Haman and myself. ⁸The nations are those that gathered to destroy the name of the Jews.^{* 9}And my nation, this is Israel, who cried out to God and was saved. The Lord has saved his people; the Lord has rescued us from all these evils; God has done great signs and wonders, wonders that have never happened among the nations.^{* 10}For this purpose he made two lots, one for the people of God and one for all the nations,^{* 11}and these two lots came to the hour and moment and to the day of judgment before God and among all the nations. ¹²And God remembered his people and vindicated his inheritance. ¹³So they will observe these days in the month of Adar, on the fourteenth and fifteenth^r of that month, with an assembly and joy and gladness before God, from generation to generation forever among his people Israel.”^*

Postscript

¹¹In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemy and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said that he was a priest and a Levite,^s and his son Ptolemy brought to Egypt^t the preceding letter about Purim, which they said was authentic and had been translated by Lysimachus son of Ptolemy, one of the residents of Jerusalem.

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