Addition D · Esther before the king · Greek replacing 5:1–2 · unit 9
While speaking she faints again; the king and his household comfort her.
Rahlfs 5:2b · Swete, Esther 4.1b–11b · .txt · .json
ἐν δὲ τῷ διαλέγεσθαι αὐτὴν ἔπεσεν ἀπὸ ἐκλύσεως· καὶ ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐταράσσετο, καὶ πᾶσα ἡ θεραπεία αὐτοῦ παρεκάλει αὐτήν.
But while she was speaking, she fell in a faint; and the king was troubled, and all his attendants comforted her.draft English
What the rabbinic bench shows
No witness No rabbinic or medieval Jewish text on this bench carries this plus at verbatim or motif grade. This is a finding, not an omission; see negative results for what the bench does and does not contain.
Flagged for further study (2)
The angel supporting her sinking neck applies equally to the plus's second collapse, mid-speech.
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'ולא היה כח באסתר ליגע בו' with an angel drawing her hand to the sceptre matches the plus's collapse while she is speaking; not MT material.
Text not reproduced: licence not stated — research only, never published verbatim. Consult Yalkut Shimoni on Esther (Remez 1046-1061) at the reference above.
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.
ויהי בדברה ותפל בהתעלפה ויבהל המלך וכל משרתיו נחמו אתה
ויהי כדברה ותפל מעלפה ויחרד המלך וכל עבדיו דברו על לבה