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# Esther 11

Esther 11 is chapter 11 of 16 in the Book of Esther. Here are all 12 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> The dream of Mardochai, which in the ancient Greek and Latin Bibles was into the beginning of the book, but was detached by St. Jerome, and put in this place.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## Esther 11 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. In the fourth year of the reigns of Ptolemy and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who was himself a priest and born of the Levites, and Ptolemy his son, brought this epistle of Purim, which they said was a translation by Lysimachus the son of Ptolemy in Jerusalem.
2. In the second year of the reign of Artaxerxes the great, on the first day of the month of Nisan, Mordecai the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin,
3. a Jewish man who lived in the city of Susa, a great gentleman, and among the first ones of the king’s court, saw a dream.
4. Now he was one of a number of captives, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away from Jerusalem with Jeconiah king of Judah.
5. And this was his dream: voices appeared, and confusion, and thunders, and earthquakes, and a disturbance upon the earth.
6. And behold, there were two great dragons making preparations against one another for battle.
7. And at their cry all peoples rushed forth to fight against the nation of the just.
8. And that was a day of darkness and division, of tribulation and anguish, and there was an unnatural dread over the earth.
9. And the nation of the just was disturbed, fearing their own evils, and was prepared for death.
10. And they cried out to God, and from their loud crying, a little fountain grew into a very great river and overflowed into many waters.
11. The light and the sun rose up, and the humble were exalted, and they devoured the illustrious.
12. When Mordecai had seen this, and he arose from bed, he was considering what God might want to do, and he kept it fixed in his soul, desiring to know what the dream might signify.

## Esther 11 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Anno quarto regnantibus Ptolemæo et Cleopatra, attulerunt Dosithæus, qui se sacerdotem et Levitici generis ferebat, et Ptolemæus filius ejus, hanc epistolam phurim, quam dixerunt interpretatum esse Lysimachum Ptolemæi filium in Jerusalem.
2. Anno secundo, regnante Artaxerxe maximo, prima die mensis Nisan, vidit somnium Mardochæus filius Jairi, filii Semei, filii Cis, de tribu Benjamin:
3. homo Judæus, qui habitabat in urbe Susis, vir magnus, et inter primos aulæ regiæ.
4. Erat autem de eo numero captivorum, quos transtulerat Nabuchodonosor rex Babylonis de Jerusalem cum Jechonia rege Juda.
5. Et hoc ejus somnium fuit: apparuerunt voces, et tumultus, et tonitrua, et terræmotus, et conturbatio super terram:
6. et ecce duo dracones magni, paratique contra se in prælium.
7. Ad quorum clamorem cunctæ concitatæ sunt nationes, ut pugnarent contra gentem justorum.
8. Fuitque dies illa tenebrarum et discriminis, tribulationis et angustiæ, et ingens formido super terram.
9. Conturbataque est gens justorum timentium mala sua, et præparata ad mortem.
10. Clamaveruntque ad Deum: et illis vociferantibus, fons parvus creavit in fluvium maximum, et in aquas plurimas redundavit.
11. Lux et sol ortus est, et humiles exaltati sunt, et devoraverunt inclytos.
12. Quod cum vidisset Mardochæus, et surrexisset de strato, cogitabat quid Deus facere vellet: et fixum habebat in animo, scire cupiens quid significaret somnium.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).