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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Addition to the Book of Esther (Greek Version) - Mordecai's dream and interpretation

(translation of Edgar Goodspeed from the Apocrypha as a Greek text: following 10:3 where the Hebrew text of Esther ends)
And Mordecai said,
"This came from God.  For I remember the dream that I had about these things; for none of them has failed to be fulfilled.  As for the tiny spring that became a river, when light came, and the sun shone and there was an abundance of water, the river is Esther, whom the king married and made queen.  And I and Haman are the two dragons.  And those who gathered to destroy the name of the Jews are the heathen.  And my nation, which cried out to God and was saved, is Israel; for the Lord has saved His people, the Lord has delivered us from all these evils, and God has wrought great signs and wonders, such as never happened among the heathen.  That is why he made two lots, one for the people of God and one for all the heathen, and these two lots came to the hour and time and day when God should judge among all the nations.  And God remembered His people, and He acquitted His inheritance.  So these days in the month of Adar, on the fourteenth and fifteenth of that month, will be observed by them with assembling together and joy and gladness before God from generation to generation, forever, among his people Israel."

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