10:9 And my nation is this Israel, which cried to God, and were saved:
for the Lord hath saved his people, and the Lord hath delivered us from
all those evils, and God hath wrought signs and great wonders, which
have not been done among the Gentiles.
10:10 Therefore hath he made two lots, one for the people of God, and
another for all the Gentiles.
10:11 And these two lots came at the hour, and time, and day of
judgment, before God among all nations.
10:12 So God remembered his people, and justified his inheritance.
10:13 Therefore those days shall be unto them in the month Adar, the
fourteenth and fifteenth day of the same month, with an assembly, and
joy, and with gladness before God, according to the generations for
ever among his people.
11:1 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 epistle of Phurim, which they said was the same, and that
Lysimachus the son of Ptolemeus, that was in Jerusalem, had interpreted
it.
11:2 In the second year of the reign of Artexerxes the great, in the
first day of the month Nisan, Mardocheus the son of Jairus, the son of
Semei, the son of Cisai, of the tribe of Benjamin, had a dream;
11:3 Who was a Jew, and dwelt in the city of Susa, a great man, being a
servitor in the king’s court.
11:4 He was also one of the captives, which Nabuchodonosor the king of
Babylon carried from Jerusalem with Jechonias king of Judea; and this
was his dream:
11:5 Behold a noise of a tumult, with thunder, and earthquakes, and
uproar in the land:
11:6 And, behold, two great dragons came forth ready to fight, and
their cry was great.
11:7 And at their cry all nations were prepared to battle, that they
might fight against the righteous people.
11:8 And lo a day of darkness and obscurity, tribulation and anguish,
affliction and great uproar, upon earth.
11:9 And the whole righteous nation was troubled, fearing their own
evils, and were ready to perish.
11:10 Then they cried unto God, and upon their cry, as it were from a
little fountain, was made a great flood, even much water.
11:11 The light and the sun rose up, and the lowly were exalted, and
devoured the glorious.
11:12 Now when Mardocheus, who had seen this dream, and what God had
determined to do, was awake, he bare this dream in mind, and until
night by all means was desirous to know it.
12:1 And Mardocheus took his rest in the court with Gabatha and Tharra,
the two eunuchs of the king, and keepers of the palace.
12:2 And he heard their devices, and searched out their purposes, and
learned that they were about to lay hands upon Artexerxes the king; and
so he certified the king of them.
12:3 Then the king examined the two eunuchs, and after that they had
confessed it, they were strangled.
12:4 And the king made a record of these things, and Mardocheus also
wrote thereof.
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