Talmai — Addition B 6: The decree: destroy them all, with wives and children, on 14 Adar. 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-03.13-06/ Source edition: H. B. Swete, The Old Testament in Greek, 19.3.1a-7a GREEK: προστετάχαμεν οὖν τοὺς σημαινομένους ὑμῖν ἐν τοῖς γεγραμμένοις ὑπὸ Ἁμὰν τοῦ τεταγμένου ἐπὶ τῶν πραγμάτων καὶ δευτέρου πατρὸς ἡμῶν, πάντας σὺν γυναιξὶ καὶ τέκνοις ἀπολέσαι ὁλορριζεὶ ταῖς τῶν ἐχθρῶν μαχαίραις ἄνευ παντὸς οἴκτου καὶ φειδοῦς τῇ τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτῃ τοῦ δωδεκάτου μηνὸς Ἀδὰρ τοῦ ἐνεστῶτος ἔτους, ENGLISH (draft-awaiting-approval): we have therefore ordered that those signified to you in the writings of Haman, who is set over affairs and is a second father to us, be destroyed root and branch, together with their wives and children, by the swords of their enemies, without any pity or sparing, on the fourteenth day of the twelfth month, Adar, of the current year, PARALLELS: - [Verbatim] Tosefet le-Esther, צו המלך הראשון (Tosefet le-Esther (he.wikisource editorial page: Additions to Esther in Hebrew)) — conduit: medieval retranslation. 'המן אשר הוא פטרון ומשנה למלך ושמנו אותו לאב' renders Addition B's distinctive epithet for Haman as the king's 'second father,' not in MT (though the accompanying wives-and-children clause is MT 3:13). - [Flagged] Aramaic Targum to Esther 8:15 (Aramaic Targum to Esther (Targum Rishon)) — conduit: Aramaic. The heralds' mocking 'Haman our father, the fool' shares the specific honorific 'father' with the edict's 'a second father to us' -- an epithet not in MT.