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* In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemeus and Cleopatra , Dositheus , who said he was a priest and Levite , and Ptolemeus his son , brought this epistle of Phurim , which they said was the same , and that Lysimachus the son of Ptolemeus , that was in Jerusalem , had interpreted it . * In the second year of the reign of Artexerxes the great , in the first day of the month Nisan , Mardocheus the son of Jairus , the son of Semei , the son of Cisai , of the tribe of Benjamin , had a dream ; * Who was a Jew , and dwelt in the city of Susa , a great man , being a servitor in the king 's court . * He was also one of the captives , which Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon carried from Jerusalem with Jechonias king of Judea ; and this was his dream : * Behold a noise of a tumult , with thunder , and earthquakes , and uproar in the land : * And , behold , two great dragons came forth ready to fight , and their cry was great . * And at their cry all nations were prepared to battle , that they might fight against the righteous people . * And lo a day of darkness and obscurity , tribulation and anguish , affliction and great uproar , upon earth . * And the whole righteous nation was troubled , fearing their own evils , and were ready to perish . * Then they cried unto God , and upon their cry , as it were from a little fountain , was made a great flood , even much water . * The light and the sun rose up , and the lowly were exalted , and devoured the glorious . * Now when Mardocheus , who had seen this dream , and what God had determined to do , was awake , he bare this dream in mind , and until night by all means was desirous to know it .

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