Additions to Esther 11
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1IN the fourth yere of the reigne of Ptolomeus and Cleopatra Dositheus, who said he was a Priest and Leuite, and Ptolomeus his sonne, that broght the former letters of "Phrurai, which thei said Lysimachus the sonne of Ptolomeus, which was at Ierusalem, interpreted, 2In the second yere of the reigne of great Artaxerxes in the first day of the moneth Nisan Mardocheus the sonne of Iarus, the sonne of Semei the sonne of Cis of the tribe of Beniamin had a dreame, 3A Iewe dwelling in the citie of Susis, a noble man, that bare office in the Kings court. 4He was also one of the captiuitie which Nabuchodonosor the King of Babylon broght from Ierusalem with Iechonias. 5And this was his dreame, Beholde a noice of a tempest with thunders, and earth quakes, and vproare in the land. 6Beholde two great dragons came forthe ready to fight one against another. 7Their crye was great, whereby all the heathen were ready to fight against the righteous people. 8And the same day was ful of darkenes & obscuritie, & trouble, & anguish: yea, aduersitie, and great affliction was vpon the earth. 9For then the righteous fearing their afflictions, were amased, and being ready to dye, cryed vnto God. 10And while they were crying, the litle wel grewe into a great riuer, and flowed ouer with great waters. 11The light & the sunne rose vp, & the lowlie were exalted, & deuoured the glorious. 12Now when Mardocheus had sene this dreame, he awoke and rose vp and thoght in his heart vntil the night, what God wolde do, & so he desired to know all the matter.