Talmai — Addition A 9: They cry to God; a small spring becomes a great river. Licence: English and apparatus CC BY 4.0 (Talmai, Wroot Press); Greek from Swete, CC BY-SA. https://talmai.wrootpress.com/rights/ Canonical: https://talmai.wrootpress.com/unit/esth-plus-01.01-09/ Source edition: H. B. Swete, The Old Testament in Greek, 19.prologue GREEK: καὶ ἐβόησαν πρὸς τὸν θεόν. ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς βοῆς αὐτῶν ἐγένετο ὡσανεὶ ἀπὸ μικρᾶς πηγῆς ποταμὸς μέγας, ὕδωρ πολύ· ENGLISH (draft-awaiting-approval): And they cried out to God. And from their cry there came, as if from a small spring, a great river, much water; PARALLELS: - [Verbatim] Esther Rabbah 8:5 (Esther Rabbah) — conduit: medieval retranslation. 'ויזעקו אל ה'...מעין מים אחד קטן...ויהי לנחל שוטף' directly renders 'ἐβόησαν πρὸς τὸν θεόν...ἀπὸ μικρᾶς πηγῆς ποταμὸς μέγας' — cry to God, then a small spring becoming a great flooding river — an exact narrative sequence absent from MT. - [Verbatim] Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 1056:4 (Yalkut Shimoni on Esther (Remez 1046-1061)) — conduit: medieval retranslation. 'ויצעק אל ה'... ויגדל המעין ויהי לנחל שוטף' matches across two clauses the plus's distinctive 'they cried out to God... a great river, much water,' an image absent from MT. - [Motif] Aramaic Targum to Esther 5:14 (Aramaic Targum to Esther (Targum Rishon)) — conduit: Aramaic. Zeresh's speech ends with Israel crying out and being answered that same night -- the specific cry-and-immediate-rescue beat that structures the dream's cry to God. - [Motif] Megillah 11a:2 (Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. 'You brought us to saturation... in the days of Haman' applies water/flood-abundance imagery specifically to the Purim deliverance, matching the plus's cry-answered-by-a-great-river dream image. - [Motif] Rashi on Megillah 15a:9:1 (Rashi on Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. Asking precisely what Mordecai said in his bitter cry is the same gap Addition A's 'they cried out to God' leaves open.