3aThen Mordecai said, These things are of God. 3bFor I remember the dream which I saw concerning these matters, and nothing thereof hath failed. 3cAs for the little fountain that became a river, and there was light, and the sun, and much water, the river is Esther, whom the king married, and made queen: 3dand the two dragons are I and Haman: 3eand the nations are those that were assembled to destroy the name of the Jews: 3fand my nation, this is Israel, which cried to God, and were saved: for the Lord hath saved his people, and the Lord hath delivered us from all these evils, and God hath wrought signs and great wonders, which have not been done among the nations. 3gTherefore hath he made two lots, one for the people of God, and another for all the nations. 3hAnd these two lots came at the hour, and time, and day of judgment, before God among all the nations. 3iSo God remembered his people, and justified his inheritance. 3kTherefore these days shall be unto them in the month Adar, the fourteenth and fifteenth day of the month, with an assembly, and joy, and with gladness before God, throughout the generations forever among his people Israel.

3lIn the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemy and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said he was a priest and Levite, and Ptolemy his son, brought the epistle of Purim here set forth, which they said was the same, and that Lysimachus the son of Ptolemy, that was in Jerusalem, had interpreted it.