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Apocrypha.
Eſther.
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The reſt of the Chapters of the Booke of Eſther, which are found neither in the Hebrew, nor in the Calde.

Part of the tenth Chapter after the Greeke.

5 Mardocheus remembreth and expoundeth his dreame, of the riuer adn the two dragons.

THen Mardocheus ſaide, God hath done theſe things.

5For I remember a dreame, which I ſawe concerning theſe matters, and nothing thereof hath failed.

6A little fountaine became a riuer, and there was light, ⁊ the Sunne, and much water: this riuer is Eſther, whõ the King married and made Queene.

7And the two Dragons are I, and Aman.

8And the nations were thoſe that were aſſembled, to deſtroy the name of the Iewes.

9And my nation is this Iſrael, which cryed to God and were ſaued: for the Lord hath ſaued his people, and the Lord hath deliuered vs from all thoſe euils, and God hath wrought ſignes, and great wonders, which haue not bin done among the Gentiles.

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