10:1 And the king levied [a tax] upon [his]
kingdom both by land and sea.
10:2 And [as for] his strength and valour, and the wealth and glory of his
kingdom, behold, they are written in the book of the Persians and Medes, for
a memorial.
10:3 And Mordecai was viceroy to king Artaxerxes, and was a great man in
the kingdom, and honoured by the Jews, and passed his life beloved of all
his nation.
And Mordecai said, These things have been done of Elohim. For I remember the
dream which I had concerning these matters: for not one particular of them
has failed. There was the little fountain 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. And the two serpents are I and Haman. And the
nations are those nations that combined to destroy the name of the Jews. But
as for my nation, this is Israel, even they that cried to Elohim and were
delivered: for Yehovah delivered his people. And Yehovah rescued us out of
all these calamities; and Elohim wrought such signs and great wonders as have
not been done among the nations. Therefore did he ordain two lots. One for
the people of Elohim, and one for all the other nations. And these two lots
came for an appointed season, and for a day of judgment, before Elohim, and for
all the nations. And Elohim remembered his people, and vindicated his
inheritance. And they shall observe these days in the month Adar, on the
fourteenth and on the fifteenth day of the month, with an assembly, and joy
and gladness before Elohim, throughout the generations for ever among his
people Israel.
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 Purim, which they said was the same, and that Lysimachus the son of
Ptolemeus, that was in Jerusalem, had interpreted it. |
10:1 And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute
upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea.
10:2 And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of
the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not
written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
10:3 For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the
Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of
his people, and speaking peace to all his seed. |