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12 And God remembered his people and vindicated his inheritance. 13 So they will observe these days in the month of Adar, on the fourteenth and fifteenth[a] of that month, with an assembly and joy and gladness before God, from generation to generation forever among his people Israel.”

Postscript

11 In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemy and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said that he was a priest and a Levite,[b] and his son Ptolemy brought to Egypt[c] the preceding Letter about Purim, which they said was authentic and had been translated by Lysimachus son of Ptolemy, one of the residents of Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 10:13 Other ancient authorities lack and fifteenth
  2. Esther 10:13 Or priest, and Levitas
  3. Esther 10:13 Cn: Gk brought in

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