Additions to Esther 10
Study resource: not ScriptureKing James Version Apocrypha (1769 standardized text) · public domain
4Then Mardocheus said, God hath done these things.
5For I remember a dream which I saw concerning these matters, and nothing thereof hath failed.
6A little fountain became a river, and there was light, and the sun, and much water: this river is Esther, whom the king married, and made queen:
7And the two dragons are I and Aman.
8And the nations were those that were assembled to destroy the name of the Jews:
9And 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.
10Therefore hath he made two lots, one for the people of God, and another for all the Gentiles.
11And these two lots came at the hour, and time, and day of judgment, before God among all nations.
12So God remembered his people, and justified his inheritance.
13Therefore 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.
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4Then Mardocheus said, God hath done these things.
5For I remember a dream which I saw concerning these matters, and nothing thereof hath failed.
6A little fountain became a river, and there was light, and the sun, and much water: this river is Esther, whom the king married, and made queen:
7And the two dragons are I and Aman.
8And the nations were those that were assembled to destroy the name of the Jews:
9And 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.
10Therefore hath he made two lots, one for the people of God, and another for all the Gentiles.
11And these two lots came at the hour, and time, and day of judgment, before God among all nations.
12So God remembered his people, and justified his inheritance.
13Therefore 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.
The language it was written in
Greek: six additions carried by the Septuagint's Esther (some possibly translated from lost Semitic sources; debated).
What survives, and where
Greek: complete
Woven through the LXX Esther; Jerome moved them to an appendix, marked with the obelus.
What you are reading here
The KJV Apocrypha (1611), from the Greek — public domain.
Hebrew Esther itself carries the full word floor on the Scripture side.