Addition F · The dream interpreted · Greek after 10:3 · unit 10
Adar 14-15 established forever as days of joyful assembly for Israel.
Rahlfs 10:3k · Swete, Esther 10.1–10 · .txt · .json
καὶ ἔσονται αὐτοῖς αἱ ἡμέραι αὗται ἐν μηνὶ Ἀδάρ, τῇ τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτῃ καὶ τῇ πεντεκαιδεκάτῃ τοῦ αὐτοῦ μηνός, μετὰ συναγωγῆς καὶ χαρᾶς καὶ εὐφροσύνης ἐνώπιον τοῦ θεοῦ κατὰ γενεὰς εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα ἐν τῷ λαῷ αὐτοῦ Ἰσραήλ.
So these days shall be for them, in the month of Adar, on the fourteenth and fifteenth of that month, with assembly and joy and gladness before God, throughout the generations forever, among his people Israel.draft English
What the rabbinic bench shows
0 verbatim · 4 motif · 1 flagged · 13 candidates examined and rejected.
- Oral: shared narrative tradition, thematic rather than literary contact
- Aramaic: carried by a targum; how the targum came by it is open
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.
The Megillah's reading as the one perpetual addition beyond Torah matches the plus's establishment of Adar 14-15 'throughout the generations forever.'
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'It is impossible for the fifteenth to precede the fourteenth' fixes the identical ordered pair of dates -- Adar 14 and 15 -- Addition F establishes.
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Listing the fifteenth of Adar among the walled-city obligations is specifically the second of Addition F's two established days.
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Reading the scroll in synagogues is a specific, non-MT rabbinic institution giving concrete content to the plus's 'assembly' attached to the two days.
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Flagged for further study (1)
The midrash insists this deliverance, unlike the first redemption from Egypt, 'will have no cessation forever' -- matching Addition F's specific claim that the Adar days stand 'throughout the generations, forever,' a shared distinctive permanence claim about Purim specifically (not the Exodus generally).
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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.
והיו להם הימים האלה בחדש אדר בארבעה עשר ובחמשה עשר לחדש ההוא במקהלות ובשמחה ובששון לפני האלהים לדרתם עד עולם בעם ישראל
והיו הימים האלה להם בחדש אדר ביום ארבעה עשר וביום חמשה עשר בו בהקהל ובשמחה ובששון לפני האלהים לדרתיהם עד עולם בתוך עמו ישראל