Talmai — Addition F 9: The two lots came to their appointed day of judgment; God remembered and vindicated his people. 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-10.03-09/ Source edition: H. B. Swete, The Old Testament in Greek, 19.10.1-10 GREEK: καὶ ἦλθον οἱ δύο κλῆροι οὗτοι εἰς ὥραν καὶ καιρὸν καὶ εἰς ἡμέραν κρίσεως ἐνώπιον τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς ἔθνεσιν, καὶ ἐμνήσθη ὁ θεὸς τοῦ λαοῦ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐδικαίωσεν τὴν κληρονομίαν ἑαυτοῦ. ENGLISH (draft-awaiting-approval): And these two lots came to the hour and the appointed time, and to the day of judgment before God and for all the nations, and God remembered his people and vindicated his inheritance. PARALLELS: - [Flagged] Esther Rabbah 7:11 (Esther Rabbah) — conduit: lost intermediary. ER's day-by-month search for the lot's target, resolved only through the angelic princes' pleading and Israel's vindication, matches Addition F's 'these two lots came to the hour and appointed time...and God remembered his people and vindicated his inheritance' — the same non-MT elaboration of the lot-casting process. - [Verbatim] Tosefet le-Esther, פתרון החלום (Tosefet le-Esther (he.wikisource editorial page: Additions to Esther in Hebrew)) — conduit: medieval retranslation. 'עד בוא יום הנועד מאת ה' על העמים... זכר עמו ורחם על נחלתו' renders Addition F's appointed day of judgment and vindication, not in MT. - [Flagged] Rashi on Megillah 13b:15:2 (Rashi on Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. The providence explanation for why the lot fell in Adar (Moses' death offset by his birth) is the same claim of God overruling the pagan lot that Addition F makes about the 'appointed day.' - [Motif] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Abba Guryon 3:10 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Abba Guryon) — conduit: lost intermediary. Both make the pur a matter adjudicated in a heavenly court (each day/month pleading its merit before God), matching Addition F's 'these two lots came... to the day of judgment before God' -- a non-MT device, since MT's pur is simply cast. - [Motif] Rashi on Megillah 13b:15:3 (Rashi on Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. 'On 7 Adar Moses was born, the birth atoning for the death' is the same providential-timing claim behind Addition F's 'these two lots came to the hour and appointed day ... God remembered his people.' - [Flagged] Targum Sheni on Esther 6:1:7 (Targum Sheni on Esther) — conduit: Aramaic. The reversal is explicitly triggered when 'the remembrance of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob came up before their Father in heaven' -- the specific causal 'remembering' that matches Addition F's 'God remembered his people and vindicated his inheritance' at the appointed hour. - [Motif] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version I 1:12 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version I) — conduit: lost intermediary. That night God rises from the throne of judgment to sit on the throne of mercy after the heavenly household pleads Israel's case -- matching Addition F's specific claim that the two lots 'came to... the day of judgment before God... and God remembered his people and vindicated his inheritance,' the same judgment-to-mercy turning point tied to the identical night. - [Motif] Targum Sheni on Esther 3:8:6 (Targum Sheni on Esther) — conduit: Aramaic. The New Year liturgy's plea that 'our remembrance come in for good and our enemies' for evil' pictures a day of judgment before God with two opposed reckonings, the closest structural counterpart in the work to Addition F's two lots reaching the day of judgment.