Rest of Esther 11:1

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. [PLACED IN THE GREEK BEFORE CHAP. 1.1 OF THE HEBREW]

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