Talmai — Addition E 16: Any city that disobeys will be destroyed by spear and fire. 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-08.12-16/ Source edition: H. B. Swete, The Old Testament in Greek, 19.8.1a-24a GREEK: πᾶσα δὲ πόλις ἢ χώρα τὸ σύνολον ἥτις κατὰ ταῦτα μὴ ποιήσῃ δόρατι καὶ πυρὶ καταναλωθήσεται μετʼ ὀργῆς· οὐ μόνον ἀνθρώποις ἄβατος, ἀλλὰ καὶ θηρίοις καὶ πετεινοῖς εἰς τὸν ἅπαντα χρόνον ἔχθιστος κατασταθήσεται. ENGLISH (draft-awaiting-approval): But every city or country whatsoever that does not act according to this shall be consumed with spear and fire in wrath; it shall be made not only impassable to men, but utterly hateful to beasts and birds as well, for all time. PARALLELS: - [Verbatim] Tosefet le-Esther, צו המלך השני (Tosefet le-Esther (he.wikisource editorial page: Additions to Esther in Hebrew)) — conduit: medieval retranslation. 'תאבד ותדלק באש ובחרב... אף מקניהם וכל בהמתם' renders Addition E's threat of destruction extended to cattle and beasts, not in MT. - [Motif] Targum Sheni on Esther 4:1:2 (Targum Sheni on Esther) — conduit: Aramaic. The edict closes with a sanction against non-compliant households (hanging over their own doorway); this is the same structural closing-penalty clause as Addition E's spear-and-fire threat against disobedient cities, absent from MT. - [Flagged] Targum Sheni on Esther 8:15:1 (Targum Sheni on Esther) — conduit: Aramaic. Heralds proclaim that whoever does not give peace to Mordecai and the Jews will be put to death and his house made a dunghill -- a specific penalty-for-noncompliance clause matching Addition E's threat against any disobedient city. - [Flagged] Aramaic Targum to Esther 8:15 (Aramaic Targum to Esther (Targum Rishon)) — conduit: Aramaic. The heralds' proclaimed sanction (whoever does not greet Mordecai and the Jews shall have his house made a dunghill) shares the specific universal-destruction-for-noncompliance structure with the plus's decree against any disobedient city. - [Flagged] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II 5:7 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II) — conduit: lost intermediary. The midrash imports Darius's sanction clause (Ezra 6:11 -- whoever alters the decree, a beam is pulled from his house and he is impaled on it) directly into the Esther narrative as a penalty-for-noncompliance formula -- structurally matching Addition E's closing sanction clause for any city that disobeys, a specific device MT nowhere supplies for either decree.