10:1But King Ahasuerus made every land and all the islands of the sea tributary: whose strength and rule, and dignity and loftiness, by which he exalted Mordecai, are written in the books of the Medes and of the Persians: and how Mordecai, of the Jewish race, was second to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and acceptable to the multitude of his brethren, seeking good things for his people, and speaking those things which pertained to the peace of his seed. 10:4And Mordecai said: "These things have been done by God. 10:5I remembered the dream which I had seen, signifying these same things: nor has any of them been void.
10:6The little spring, which grew into a river, and was turned into light and sun, and overflowed into very many waters: it is Esther, whom the king took as wife, and wished to be queen. 10:7But the two dragons: they are I, and Haman. 10:8The nations which had come together: these are those who tried to blot out the name of the Jews. 10:9But my nation is Israel, which cried to the Lord, and the Lord saved his people: and he freed us from all evils, and did great signs and wonders among the nations: and he commanded that there be two lots, one of the people of God, and the other of all the nations.
10:11And each lot came to the day appointed from that time now, before God, for all the nations: and the Lord remembered his people, and had mercy on his inheritance. 10:13And these days will be observed in the month Adar, on the fourteenth and fifteenth day of the same month, with all zeal and joy, the people being gathered into one assembly, for all the generations of the people of Israel hereafter."