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1 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.
2 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;
4 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:
7 And at their cry all nations were prepared to battle, that they might fight against the righteous people.
8 And lo a day of darkness and obscurity, tribulation and anguish, affliction and great uproar, upon earth.