Esther 10

Old Testament · Brenton Septuagint with Greek parallel

Esther 10

1And the king levied a tax upon his kingdom both by land and sea.Ἔγραψε δὲ ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐπὶ τὴν βασιλείαν τῆς τε γῆς καὶ τῆς θαλάσσης.

2And 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.Καὶ τὴν ἰσχὺν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀνδραγαθίαν, πλοῦτόν τε καὶ δόξαν τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ, ἰδοὺ γέγραπται ἐν βιβλίῳ βασιλέων Περσῶν καὶ Μήδων, εἰς μνημόσυνον.

3And Mardochaeus * was viceroy to king Artaxerxes, and was a great man in the kingdom, and honored by the Jews, and passed his life beloved of all his nation. † [And Mardocheus said, These things have been done of God. 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 Aman. 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 God and were delivered: for the Lord delivered his people. And the Lord rescued us out of all these calamities; and God 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 God, and one for all the other nations. And these two lots came for an appointed season, and for a day of judgment, before God, and for all the nations. And God 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 God, 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 Phurim, which they said was the same, and that Lysimachus the son of Ptolemeus, that was in Jerusalem, had interpreted.]Ὁ δὲ Μαρδοχαῖος διεδέχετο τὸν βασιλέα Ἀρταξέρξην, καὶ μέγας ἦν ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ, καὶ δεδοξασμένος ὑπὸ τῶν Ἰουδαίων· καὶ φιλούμενος διηγεῖτο τὴν ἀγωγὴν παντὶ τῷ ἔθνει αὐτοῦ.

3a“Καὶ εἶπε Μαρδοχαῖος, παρὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐγένετο ταῦτα.

3bἘμνήσθην γὰρ περὶ τοῦ ἐνυπνίου οὗ εἶδον περὶ τῶν λόγων τούτων· οὐδὲ γὰρ παρῆλθεν ἀπʼ αὐτῶν λόγος·

3cἩ μικρὰ πηγὴ ἣ ἐγένετο ποταμός, καὶ ἦν φῶς καὶ ἥλιος καὶ ὕδωρ πολύ. Ἐσθήρ ἐστιν ὁ ποταμός, ἣν ἐγάμησεν ὁ βασιλεὺς, καὶ ἐποίησε βασίλισσαν.

3dΟἱ δὲ δύο δράκοντες, ἐγώ εἰμι καὶ Ἀμάν.

3eΤὰ δὲ ἔθνη, τὰ ἐπισυναχθέντα ἀπολέσαι τὸ ὄνομα τῶν Ἰουδαίων.

3fΤὸ δὲ ἔθνος τὸ ἐμόν, οὗτός ἐστιν Ἰσραὴλ, οἱ βοήσαντες πρὸς τὸν Θεὸν, καὶ σωθέντες· καὶ ἔσωσε Κύριος τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐῤῥύσατο Κύριος ἡμᾶς ἐκ πάντων τῶν κακῶν τούτων· καὶ ἐποίησεν ὁ Θεὸς τὰ σημεῖα, καὶ τὰ τέρατα τὰ μεγάλα, ἃ οὐ γέγονεν ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσι.

3gΔιὰ τοῦτο ἐποίησε κλήρους δύο, ἕνα τῷ λαῷ τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ ἕνα πᾶσι τοῖς ἔθνεσι.

3hΚαὶ ἦλθον οἱ δύο κλῆροι οὗτοι εἰς ὥραν καὶ καιρὸν, καὶ εἰς ἡμέραν κρίσεως, ἐνώπιον τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς ἔθνεσι.

3iΚαὶ ἐμνήσθη ὁ Θεὸς τοῦ λαοῦ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐδικαίωσε τὴν κληρονομίαν αὑτοῦ.

3kΚαὶ ἔσονται αὐτοῖς αἱ ἡμέραι αὗται, ἐν μηνὶ Ἀδὰρ, τῇ τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτῃ καὶ τῇ πεντεκαιδεκάτῃ τοῦ μηνὸς, μετὰ συναγωγῆς καὶ χαρᾶς καὶ εὐφροσύνης ἐνώπιον τοῦ Θεοῦ, κατὰ γενεὰς εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα ἐν τῷ λαῷ αὐτοῦ Ἰσραήλ.

3l“Ἔτους τετάρτου βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου καὶ Κλεοπάτρας, εἰσήνεγκε Δοσίθεος, ὃς ἔφη εἶναι ἱερεὺς καὶ Λευίτης, καὶ Πτολεμαῖος ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ, τὴν προκειμένην ἐπιστολὴν τῶν Φρουραί, ἣν ἔφασαν εἶναι, καὶ ἡρμηνευκέναι Λυσίμαχον Πτολεμαίου, τὸν ἐν Ἱερουσαλήμ.” Τέλος τῆς Ἐσθήρ.

Translator's Notes

These notes come from the printed edition of Sir Lancelot Brenton's classic English translation of the Septuagint (LXX), and record where the Greek differs from the English rendering or admits more than one reading.

• v. 3*Gr. succeded to Or, came into the place of.
• v. 3†the passages in brackets are not in the Hebrew.