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The river is Esther, whom the king married and made queen. <span id="v19046004" class="ver">4</span>The two dragons are myself and Haman. <span id="v19046005" class="ver">5</span>The nations are those who assembled to destroy the name of the Jews, <span id="v19046006" class="ver">6</span>but my people is Israel, who cried to God and was saved.</p> <p>“The Lord saved his people and delivered us from all these evils. God worked signs and great wonders, such as have not occurred among the nations. <span id="v19046007" class="ver">7</span>For this purpose he arranged two lots:<a id="rfn19046007-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn19046007-1">*</a> one for the people of God, the second for all the other nations. <span id="v19046008" class="ver">8</span>These two lots were fulfilled in the hour, the time, and the day of judgment before God and among all the nations. <span id="v19046009" class="ver">9</span>God remembered his people and rendered justice to his inheritance.</p> <p><span id="v19046010" class="ver">10</span><a id="ren19046010-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en19046010-b">b</a> “Gathering together with joy and happiness before God, they shall celebrate these days on the fourteenth and fifteenth of the month Adar throughout all future generations of his people Israel.”</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Colophon.<a id="rfn19046011-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn19046011-1">*</a></span> <span id="v19046011" class="ver">11</span>In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemy and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said he was a priest and Levite, and his son Ptolemy brought the present letter of Purim, saying that it was genuine and that Lysimachus, son of Ptolemy, of the community of Jerusalem, had translated it.</p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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