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 Therefore hath hee made two lots, one for the people of God, and another for all the Gentiles.

And theſe two lots came at the houre, and time, and day of iudgement before God amongſt all nations.

So God remembred his people, and iuſtified his inheritance.

Therefore thoſe dayes ſhall be vnto them in the moneth Adar, the foureteenth and fifteenth day of the ſame moneth, with an aſſembly, and ioy, and with gladneſſe, before God, according to the generations for euer among his people.

N the fourth yeere of the raigne of Ptolomeus, and Cleopatra, Doſitheus, who ſaid hee was a prieſt and Leuite, and Ptolomeus his ſonne brought this Epiſtle of Phurim, which they ſaid was the ſame, and that Lyſimachus the ſonne of Ptolomeus, that was in Ieruſalem, had interpreted it.

In the ſecond yeere of the raigne of Artaxerxes the great: in the firſt day of the moneth Niſan, Mardocheus the ſonne of Iairus, the ſonne of Semei, the ſonne of Ciſai of the tribe of Beniamin, had a dreame.

Who was a Iew and dwelt in the citie of Suſa, a great man, being a ſeruitour in the kings court.

He was alſo one of the captiues, which Nabuchodonoſor the king of Babylon caried from Ieruſalem, with Iechonias king of Iudea; and this was his dreame.

Behold a noiſe of a tumult with thunder, and earthquakes, and vproare in the land.

And behold, two great dragons came forth ready to fight, and their crie was great.

And at their cry all nations were prepared to battel, that they might fight againſt the righteous people.

And loe a day of darkneſſe and obſcurity: tribulation, and anguiſh, affliction, and great vproare vpon the earth.

And the whole righteous nation was troubled, fearing their owne euils and were ready to periſh.

Then they cryed vnto God, and vpon their cry, as it were from a little fountaine, was made a great flood, euen much water.

The light and the Sunne roſe vp, and the lowly were exalted, and deuoured the glorious.

Now when Mardocheus, who had ſeene this dreame, and what God had determined to doe, was awake: he bare this dreame in minde, and vntill night by all meanes was deſirous to know it.

Nd Mardocheus tooke his reſt in the court with Gabatha, and Tharra, the two Eunuches of the king, and keepers of the palace.


 * And he heard their deuices, and ſearched out their purpoſes, and learned that they were about to lay hands vpon Artaxerxes the king, and ſo he certified the king of them.

Then the king examined the two Eunuches, and after that they had confeſſed it, they were ſtrangled.

And the king made a record of theſe things, and Mardocheus alſo wrote thereof.

So the king commaunded Mardocheus to ſerue in the court, and for this he rewarded him.

Howbeit Aman the ſonne of Amadathus the Agagite, who was in great honour with the king, ſought to moleſt Mardocheus and his people, becauſe of the two Eunuches of the king.

He copy of the letters was this. The great king Artaxerxes, writeth theſe things to the princes, and gouernours that are vnder him from India vnto Ethiopia, in an hundred and ſeuen and twentie prouinces.

After that I became Lord ouer many nations, and had dominion ouer the