Addition F · The dream interpreted · Greek after 10:3 · unit 9
The two lots came to their appointed day of judgment; God remembered and vindicated his people.
Rahlfs 10:3h-i · Swete, Esther 10.1–10 · .txt · .json
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.
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.draft English
What the rabbinic bench shows
1 verbatim · 4 motif · 3 flagged · 6 candidates examined and rejected.
- Medieval retranslation: the Additions re-entered Hebrew from Latin (Sefer Yosippon, c. 953; ben Makhir), so this is not ancient reception
- Lost intermediary: an earlier written aggadic source, no longer extant, stands between
- Oral: shared narrative tradition, thematic rather than literary contact
- Aramaic: carried by a targum; how the targum came by it is open
Verbatim
'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.
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Motif — candidate parallels
Unverified at pair level: in a seeded sample of forty motif pairs, 58% failed the study's own test. Read each as a candidate.
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.
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'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.'
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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.
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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.
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Flagged for further study (3)
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.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
ויבאו שני הגורלות האלה לשעה ולמועד וליום המשפט לפני האלהים ובכל הגוים ויזכר האלהים את עמו ויצדק את נחלתו
ויבאו שני הגורלות לעת ולמועד וליום הדין לפני אלהים ולכל הגוים ויפקד אלהים את עמו ויצדיק את נחלתו