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And the nations were those that were assembled to destroy the name of the Jews:
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And my nation is this Israel, which cried to God, and were saved: for the Lord hath saved his
people, and the Lord hath delivered us from all those evils, and God hath wrought signs and great
wonders, which have not been done among the Gentiles.
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Therefore hath he made two lots, one for the people of God, and another for all the Gentiles.
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And these two lots came at the hour, and time, and day of judgment, before God among all
nations.
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So God remembered his people, and justified his inheritance.
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Therefore those days shall be unto them in the month Adar, the fourteenth and fifteenth day
of the same month, with an assembly, and joy, and with gladness before God, according to the
generations for ever among his people.
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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 it.
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In the second year of the reign of Artexerxes the great, in the first day of the month Nisan,
Mardocheus the son of Jairus, the son of Semei, the son of Cisai, of the tribe of Benjamin, had a
dream;
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Who was a Jew, and dwelt in the city of Susa, a great man, being a servitor in the king's court.
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He was also one of the captives, which Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon carried from
Jerusalem with Jechonias king of Judea; and this was his dream:
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Behold a noise of a tumult, with thunder, and earthquakes, and uproar in the land:
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And, behold, two great dragons came forth ready to fight, and their cry was great.
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And at their cry all nations were prepared to battle, that they might fight against the righteous
people.
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And lo a day of darkness and obscurity, tribulation and anguish, affliction and great uproar,
upon earth.
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And the whole righteous nation was troubled, fearing their own evils, and were ready to perish.
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Then they cried unto God, and upon their cry, as it were from a little fountain, was made a
great flood, even much water.
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The light and the sun rose up, and the lowly were exalted, and devoured the glorious.
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Now when Mardocheus, who had seen this dream, and what God had determined to do, was
awake, he bare this dream in mind, and until night by all means was desirous to know it.
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