The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Septuagint 10
1 The king levied a tax upon his kingdom
both by land and sea.
2 As for his strength and valour, and the
wealth and glory of his kingdom, behold,
they are written in the book ofthe Persians
and Medes for a memorial.
3 Mordecai† was viceroy to King Ahasuerus,
and was a great man in the kingdom, honored
by the Jews, and lived his
life loved by all his nation.‡
4 [Mordecai said, “These things have
come from God.
5 For I remember the dream which I
had concerning these matters; for not one
detail of them has failed.
6 There was the little spring which became a river,
and there was light, and the
sun and much water. The river is Esther,
whom the king married and made queen.
7 The two serpents are Haman and me.
8 The nations are those which combined
to destroy the name of the Jews.
9 But as for my nation, this is Israel, even
those who cried to God and were delivered;
for the Lord delivered his people.
The Lord rescued us out of allthese
calamities; and God worked such signs and great
wonders as have not been done among the
nations.
10 Therefore he ordained two lots. One
for the people of God, and one for all the
other nations.
11 And these two lots came for an appointed
season, and for a day of judgment,
before God, and for all the nations.
12 God remembered his people and vindicated
his inheritance.
13 They shall observe these days in the
month Adar, on the fourteenth and on the
fifteenth day of the month, with an assembly,
joy, and gladness before God, through out the
generations forever amonghis people Israel.
14 In the fourth year of the reign of
Ptolemeus and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said
he was a priest and Levite, and Ptolemeus
his son brought this letter of Purim, which
they said was authentic, and that Lysimachus
the son of Ptolemeus, who was in
Jerusalem, had interpreted.]