Addition A · Mordecai's dream and the eunuchs' plot · Greek before 1:1 · unit 14
The eunuchs are examined, confess, and are led away.
Rahlfs 1:1o · Swete, Esther, prologue · .txt · .json
καὶ ἐξήτασεν ὁ βασιλεὺς τοὺς δύο εὐνούχους. καὶ ὁμολογήσαντες ἀπήχθησαν,
And the king examined the two eunuchs. And having confessed, they were led away,draft English
What the rabbinic bench shows
1 verbatim · 0 motif · 10 candidates examined and rejected. Every parallel here comes through a medieval retranslation of the Additions, not ancient reception.
- Medieval retranslation: the Additions re-entered Hebrew from Latin (Sefer Yosippon, c. 953; ben Makhir), so this is not ancient reception
Verbatim
'והמלך חקר את הדבר... וידע אותו מהודאת פיהם' renders Addition A's distinctive confession (ὁμολογήσαντες) before hanging, an element MT lacks.
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Hebrew retroversions
Machine-assisted reconstructions of a Hebrew the Greek might render, made under Tov's principles and used only as search queries. They are hypotheses, not evidence.
ויחקר המלך את שני הסריסים ויודו ויולכו למות
וידרש המלך את שני הסריסים ויענו ויוצאו ויתלו על עץ