And his might and his valour, and the wealth and glory of his kingdom—behold, they are written in the book of the kings of the Persians and Medes, for a memorial.
And Mordecai was second to King Artaxerxes and was great in the kingdom, honoured by the Jews and beloved; and he recounted their whole course to all his nation. And Mordecai said, “These things have come from God. For I remembered the dream that I saw concerning these matters, and not one word of it has fallen to the ground. The little spring that became a river, and there was light and sun and abundant water—Esther is the river, whom the king married and made queen. And the two dragons are I and Haman. And the nations are those that were gathered together to blot out the name of the Jews. And my nation, this is Israel, those who cried out to God and were saved. And the Lord saved his people, and the Lord rescued us out of all these evils; and God did the signs and the great wonders that have not happened among the nations. For this reason he made two lots, one for the people of God and one for all the nations. And these two lots came at the hour and the season and at the day of judgment before God and among all the nations. And God remembered his people and vindicated his inheritance. And these days shall be theirs in the month of Adar, on the fourteenth and on the fifteenth of the same month, with assembly and joy and gladness before God, throughout the generations for ever among his people Israel.” In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemy and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said that he was a priest and a Levite, and Ptolemy his son brought in the foregoing letter of Phrourai, which they said was genuine and that Lysimachus son of Ptolemy, one of those in Jerusalem, had translated it.