Talmai — Addition D 1: On the third day, Esther exchanges her mourning clothes for royal splendor.
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Canonical: https://talmai.wrootpress.com/unit/esth-plus-05.01-01/
Source edition: H. B. Swete, The Old Testament in Greek, 19.4.1b-11b

GREEK: Καὶ ἐγενήθη ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ τρίτῃ ὡς ἐπαύσατο προσευχομένη, ἐξεδύσατο τὰ ἱμάτια τῆς θεραπείας καὶ περιεβάλετο τὴν δόξαν αὐτῆς·
ENGLISH (draft-awaiting-approval): And it came to pass on the third day, when she had finished praying, that she took off the garments of her service and put on her glory.

PARALLELS:
- [Motif] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II 5:1 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II) — conduit: lost intermediary. Both texts specify the THIRD DAY as the moment Esther is divinely reclothed in royal splendor after ashes/sackcloth -- a specific shared narrative beat (day-number plus divine reclothing) that MT nowhere supplies.
- [Flagged] Aramaic Targum to Esther 5:1 (Aramaic Targum to Esther (Targum Rishon)) — conduit: Aramaic. The targum gives the identical sequence at the identical verse: third day, Esther dons royal garments, stands and prays -- matching Addition D's day-count and garment exchange.
- [Motif] Targum Sheni on Esther 5:1:1 (Targum Sheni on Esther) — conduit: Aramaic. 'On the third day, when Esther had fasted three fasts, she rose from the dust and ashes... and put on royal apparel' after finishing her prayer reproduces Addition D's specific sequence -- end of prayer, exchange of mourning for glory -- which MT never narrates (the third-day timing itself is MT-derivable, but this narrative frame is not). One of the parallels the scholarly literature already records (control P05).
- [Motif] Esther Rabbah 9:1 (Esther Rabbah) — conduit: medieval retranslation. garments of her beauty and jewels of her glory for 'put on her glory'; one clause, and MT 5:1 supplies the donning of royalty.