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СКАЧАТЬ Esdr 16:72 For they shall waste and take away their goods, and cast them out of their houses.

      2 Esdr 16:73 Then shall they be known, who are my chosen; and they shall be tried as the gold in the fire.

      2 Esdr 16:74 Hear, O ye my beloved, saith the Lord: behold, the days of trouble are at hand, but I will deliver you from the same.

      2 Esdr 16:75 Be ye not afraid neither doubt; for God is your guide,

      2 Esdr 16:76 And the guide of them who keep my commandments and precepts, saith the Lord God: let not your sins weigh you down, and let not your iniquities lift up themselves.

      2 Esdr 16:77 Woe be unto them that are bound with their sins, and covered with their iniquities like as a field is covered over with bushes, and the path thereof covered with thorns, that no man may travel through!

      2 Esdr 16:78 It is left undressed, and is cast into the fire to be consumed therewith.

      The Greek Additions to Esther

      [The Rest of the Chapters of the Book of Esther]

      AddEsth 10:4

      Then Mardocheus said, God hath done these things.

      AddEsth 10:5 For I remember a dream which I saw concerning these matters, and nothing thereof hath failed.

      AddEsth 10:6 A little fountain became a river, and there was light, and the sun, and much water: this river is Esther, whom the king married, and made queen:

      AddEsth 10:7

      And the two dragons are I and Aman.

      AddEsth 10:8 And the nations were those that were assembled to destroy the name of the Jews:

      AddEsth 10:9 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.

      AddEsth 10:10 Therefore hath he made two lots, one for the people of God, and another for all the Gentiles.

      AddEsth 10:11 And these two lots came at the hour, and time, and day of judgment, before God among all nations.

      AddEsth 10:12

      So God remembered his people, and justified his inheritance.

      AddEsth 10:13 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.

      AddEsth 11:1 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.

      AddEsth 11:2 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;

      AddEsth 11:3 Who was a Jew, and dwelt in the city of Susa, a great man, being a servitor in the king's court.

      AddEsth 11:4

      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:

      AddEsth 11:5 Behold a noise of a tumult, with thunder, and earthquakes, and uproar in the land:

      AddEsth 11:6 And, behold, two great dragons came forth ready to fight, and their cry was great.

      AddEsth 11:7 And at their cry all nations were prepared to battle, that they might fight against the righteous people.

      AddEsth 11:8 And lo a day of darkness and obscurity, tribulation and anguish, affliction and great uproar, upon earth.

      AddEsth 11:9 And the whole righteous nation was troubled, fearing their own evils, and were ready to perish.

      AddEsth 11:10 Then they cried unto God, and upon their cry, as it were from a little fountain, was made a great flood, even much water.

      AddEsth 11:11 The light and the sun rose up, and the lowly were exalted, and devoured the glorious.

      AddEsth 11:12 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.

      AddEsth 12:1

      And Mardocheus took his rest in the court with Gabatha and Tharra, the two eunuchs of the king, and keepers of the palace.

      AddEsth 12:2 And he heard their devices, and searched out their purposes, and learned that they were about to lay hands upon Artexerxes the king; and so he certified the king of them.

      AddEsth 12:3 Then the king examined the two eunuchs, and after that they had confessed it, they were strangled.

      AddEsth 12:4 And the king made a record of these things, and Mardocheus also wrote thereof.

      AddEsth 12:5 So the king commanded, Mardocheus to serve in the court, and for this he rewarded him.

      AddEsth 12:6 Howbeit Aman the son of Amadathus the Agagite, who was in great honour with the king, sought to molest Mardocheus and his people because of the two eunuchs of the king.

      AddEsth 13:1 The copy of the letters was this: The great king Artexerxes writeth these things to the princes and governours that are under him from India unto Ethiopia in an hundred and seven and twenty provinces.

      AddEsth 13:2 After that I became lord over many nations and had dominion over the whole world, not lifted up with presumption of my authority, but carrying myself always with equity and mildness, I purposed to settle my subjects continually in a quiet life, and making my kingdom peaceable, and open for passage to the utmost coasts, to renew peace, which is desired of all men.

      AddEsth 13:3 Now when I asked my counsellors how this might be brought to pass, Aman, that excelled in wisdom among us, and was approved for his constant good will and steadfast fidelity, and had the honour of the second place in the kingdom,

      AddEsth 13:4 Declared unto us, that in all nations throughout the world there was scattered a certain malicious people, that had laws contrary to ail nations, and continually despised the commandments of kings, so as the uniting of our kingdoms, honourably intended by us cannot go forward.

      AddEsth 13:5 Seeing then we understand that this people alone is continually in opposition unto all men, differing in the strange manner of their laws, and evil affected to our state, working all the mischief they can that our kingdom may not be firmly established:

      AddEsth 13:6 Therefore have we commanded, that all they that are signified in writing unto you by Aman, who is ordained over the affairs, and is next unto us, shall all, with their wives and children, be utterly destroyed by the sword of their enemies, without all mercy and pity, the fourteenth day of the twelfth month Adar of this present year:

      AddEsth 13:7 That they, who of old and now also are malicious, may in one day with violence go into the grave, and so ever hereafter cause our affairs to be well settled, and without trouble.

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