Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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Mordecai Remembers His Dream
note
1 Then Mordecai said, “God has
caused all these things to happen!
2 And I am reminded of the
dream I had about all of this. Every
detail of the dream has come true:
3 the small spring that became a
river, the dawn that turned into sunlight,
and the abundance of water.
The river is Esther, whom the king
married and made his queen.
4 The
two dragons represent Haman and
me.
5 The nations are all those who
have gathered together to destroy
the Jews.
6 My nation is Israel,
which cried out to God for help and
was saved. The Lord saved his people!
He rescued us from all these
evils and performed great miracles
and wonders that have never happened
among other nations.
7 That is
because God prepared one destiny
for his own people and another for
all other nations.
8 Then came the
day and the hour when these two
destinies were to be decided; the
time had come for God to make a
decision about the nations.
9 God remembered
his chosen people and
gave the verdict in their favor.
10 So
each year for all time to come God's
people will gather together in his
presence on the fourteenth and fifteenth
of the month of Adar, and
celebrate with joy and happiness.”
Postscript
10 During the fourth year of the reign
of Ptolemy and Cleopatra, a man
named Dositheus, who claimed to be
a levitical priest, brought the preceding
letter about the Purim festival.
He was accompanied by his son
Ptolemy, and they declared that the
letter was genuine and that it had
been translated by Lysimachus, son
of Ptolemy, a member of a Jerusalem
family.
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Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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