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Thus, gathering together with joy before God on the fourteenth and fifteenth of the month of Adar, Israel will celebrate these days from generation to generation. (Esther 10, 13)
In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemy and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who affirmed he was a priest and a Levite, and his son Ptolemy brought to Egypt the foregoing letter concerning the Purim, maintaining that it was genuine and had been translated by Lysimachus, Ptolemy's son and a resident of Jerusalem. (Esther 11, 1)
Mordecai was a Jew residing at Susa who held a prominent position at the king's court. (Esther 11, 3)
He was one of the captives whom Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, had deported from Jerusalem with Jeconiah, king of Judah. (Esther 11, 4)
According to his dream, there were cries and tumult, thunder and earthquake and confusion upon the earth, (Esther 11, 5)
On earth it was a day of darkness and gloom, tribulation and distress, affliction and great disturbance. (Esther 11, 8)
In those days while Mordecai was resting at the king's gate together with Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs and palace guards, (Esther 12, 1)
Mordecai investigated the matter, informed the king who had the two eunuchs questioned. They confessed and were put to death. (Esther 12, 3)
By order of the king, these events were recorded by Mordecai (Esther 12, 4)
The text of the letter was as follows: The Great King Ahasuerus to the rulers of the hundred and twenty-seven provinces from India to Ethiopia and to the governors under them: (Esther 13, 1)
As ruler of many nations and master of the whole world, I have resolved never to be carried away by the arrogance of power but always to rule with fairness and clemency, to provide for my subjects a life free of distress, and to restore the peace that all men desire by making my government humane and truly civilized as far as the borders of my kingdom. (Esther 13, 2)
When I consulted my advisers on how this might be accomplished, Haman, who excels among us in wisdom, who has earned distinction for trustworthiness and loyalty, and who has attained the second rank in the kingdom, (Esther 13, 3)
