Esther (Greek) 11 — WBMS

11In the fourth year, when Ptolemy and Cleopatra reigned, Dositheus, that said himself to be a priest and of the kin of Levi, and Ptolemy, his son, brought this epistle of lots [or Purim] into Jerusalem, which epistle they said, that Lysimachus, the son of Ptolemy, translated. This is a rubric; for this beginning was in the common translation, which beginning is not told in Hebrew, neither at any of the translators, [or This forsooth was the beginning in the common translation, that neither in Hebrew, nor with any of the interpreters is told].²In the second year, when Artaxerxes⁺the most reigned/the mightiest king reigned, Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, of the lineage of Benjamin, saw a dream in the first day of the month Nisan, that is, June;³and Mordecai was a man a Jew, that dwelled in the city of Susa, a great man, and among the chief men or the first men of the king’s hall.⁴And he was of that number of prisoners [or captives], which Nebu-chadnezzar, the king of Babylon, had translated or brought over from Jerusalem with Jeconiah, king of Judah. And this was his dream.⁵He saw that voices, and noises, and thunders, and earth-movings [or earthquakes], and great troubling [or disturbing] appeared upon the earth.⁶And lo! two great dragons, and they were made ready against them-selves into battle;⁷at whose cry all nations were stirred together, to fight against the folk of just [or rightwise] men.⁸And that was a day of darknesses, and of peril, of tribulation, and of anguish, and great dread [or great fear] was then upon the earth.⁹And the folk of just [or rightwise] men, dreading their evils, was disturbed, and made ready to death.¹⁰And they cried to God; and when they cried, a little well increased [or waxed] into a full great flood, and it turned again into full many waters.¹¹And then the light and the sun rose up; and meek men were enhanced, and devoured noble men.¹²And when Mordecai in his sleep had seen this thing, and had risen from his bed, he thought, what God would do, and he had fast set [or fixed] in his soul this vision, and coveted to know, what the dream signified.