Restored English Translation of Esther: Chapter 15
Well, at long last, I present my Restored English Translation (RET) of the final chapter of the Megillat Ester (aka Book of Esther) – chapter 15. As usual, it contains the Hebrew names, with a glossary of them at the end.
(NOTE: to clarify, this is my own translation of the Bible, largely based on the King James Version.)
You may be unfamiliar with most of this chapter (the first 3 verses form Chapter 10 in most translations); see Restored English Translation of Esther: Chapter 1 and The Canon of Scripture, Part 1: The Apocrypha.
Glossary
Achashverosh – Ahasuerus
Mordekai – Mordecai
Madai – Media
Paras – Persia
Yehudi – Jew
Yehudim – Jews
ELOHIM – God(s)
Ester – Esther
Yisra’el – Israel
YEHOVAH – The Lord
cohen – priest
Levi’i – Levite
Mitsrayim – Egypt
Yerushalayim – Jerusalem
(NOTE: to clarify, this is my own translation of the Bible, largely based on the King James Version.)
You may be unfamiliar with most of this chapter (the first 3 verses form Chapter 10 in most translations); see Restored English Translation of Esther: Chapter 1 and The Canon of Scripture, Part 1: The Apocrypha.
CHAPTER 15
1 And the king Achashverosh laid a tribute on the land, and on the
islands of the sea. 2 And all the acts of his power and of his might,
and the declaration of the greatness of Mordekai, to which the king
advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Madai and Paras? 3 For Mordekai the Yehudi was next to King
Achashverosh, and was great among the Yehudim, and accepted among the
multitude of his brothers, seeking the good of his people, and speaking
peace to all his seed. 4 And Mordekai said, “ELOHIM has done these
things. 5 For I remember a dream which I saw concerning these matters,
and none of it has failed. 6 A little fountain became a river, and there
was light, and the sun, and abundant water. This river is Ester, whom
the king married, and made queen. 7 And the two dragons are Haman and
myself. 8 The nations were those that assembled to destroy the name of
the Yehudim. 9 And my nation is this Yisra’el, who cried to ELOHIM, and
were saved; for YEHOVAH has saved His people, and YEHOVAH has delivered
us from all those evils, and ELOHIM has wrought signs and great wonders,
which have not been done among the gentiles. 10 Therefore He has made
two lots, one for the people of ELOHIM, and another for all the
gentiles. 11 And these two lots came at the hour, and time, and day of
judgment, before ELOHIM among all nations. 12 So ELOHIM remembered His
people, and vindicated His inheritance. 13 Therefore those days will be
observed by them in the month Adar, on the 14th and 15th day of that
month, with an assembly and joy and with gladness before ELOHIM,
according to the generations for ever among His people Yisra’el.” 14 In
the 4th year of the reign of Ptolemy and Cleopatra, Dositheus (who said
he was a cohen and Levi’i) and his son Ptolemy brought this letter of
Purim to Mitsrayim, which they said was authentic, and that Lysimachus
the son of Ptolemy, who was in Yerushalayim, had translated it.Glossary
Achashverosh – Ahasuerus
Mordekai – Mordecai
Madai – Media
Paras – Persia
Yehudi – Jew
Yehudim – Jews
ELOHIM – God(s)
Ester – Esther
Yisra’el – Israel
YEHOVAH – The Lord
cohen – priest
Levi’i – Levite
Mitsrayim – Egypt
Yerushalayim – Jerusalem
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