Yalkut Shimoni on Esther (Remez 1046-1061)

'רעש ורעד חזק מאד וקול בהלה... ופחד ורעד' is a matching cluster of terms (tremor, tumult, terror) across the wording of the plus's 'voices and tumult, thunders and earthquake, confusion,' material found nowhere in MT.

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'שני תנינים גדולים זה לקראת זה למלחמה' is the specific image of two great dragons advancing to fight, matching the plus precisely; not MT material.

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'וירוצו לקולם כל הארץ... ויקומו כל הגוים על גוי קטן' reproduces across two clauses the plus's 'every nation prepared for war... against a righteous nation,' with no MT counterpart.

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'ויצר לגוי הקטן מאד' matches the plus's righteous nation troubled and fearing destruction; an image with no MT counterpart.

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'ויצעק אל ה'... ויגדל המעין ויהי לנחל שוטף' matches across two clauses the plus's distinctive 'they cried out to God... a great river, much water,' an image absent from MT.

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'ויזרח השמש ויאר... ויתרומם הגוי הקטן' matches across two clauses the plus's 'the sun rose... the lowly were exalted,' an image absent from MT.

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The king turns his face away in fury and Esther, lacking strength, collapses — matching the plus's king inflamed with anger and the queen fainting; this whole scene is absent from MT 5:2.

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'ידע... שנתקיים החלום' — the dream recognized as fulfilled — matches Addition F's 'not one word of it failed to come to pass'; not MT material.

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'ויקומו כל הגוים על גוי קטן לאבד זכרו מן הארץ' shares the specific phrase 'destroy his name/memory,' matching the plus's 'gathered together to destroy the name of the Jews'; not MT material.

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'ויצר לגוי הקטן מאד ויצעק אל ה'... ויתרומם הגוי הקטן' matches the plus's 'my nation is Israel, who cried out to God and were saved'; not MT material.

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Witness dates Mordecai's dream to 'בשנה השנית למלך אחשורוש' (the second year of Ahasuerus), matching the plus's dating of the dream to Artaxerxes' second year — a detail with no MT basis at all (MT has no dream).

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Mordecai overhears the two eunuchs speaking Tarsian (which he understands from the Chamber of Hewn Stone) and learns of their poison plot — a specific mechanism of discovery matching 'overheard their reasonings and searched out their designs'; not MT (MT gives no mechanism).

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The king removes Bigthan and Teresh and installs Mordecai in their place as court guard — a specific replacement-appointment matching the plus; MT only records that Mordecai's report was written down, not that he was appointed to their post.

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'העביר שני קלסנטרין ומושיב הברברי הזה' states from the enemies' side the same replacement-appointment of Mordecai to the eunuchs' post that the plus describes; not MT material.

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Mordecai's message to Esther grounds hope specifically in the Exodus redemption ('כששמט נפשות בכוריהן וטבע שונאיהם בים'), matching the plus's appeal not to overlook the portion redeemed out of Egypt; not MT material (this exchange is absent from MT).

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R. Shimon b. Yohai's answer — the generation was liable to destruction 'מפני שהשתחוו לצלם' — is exactly the plus's confession that they were handed to their enemies because they glorified other gods; not MT material (MT gives no theological cause).

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At the very point Addition C's prayer stands, Mordecai himself says destruction was decreed 'מיום שכרו לצלמו של נבוכדנאצר' — the same idolatry-as-cause confession, in the same speaker's mouth; not MT material.

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The witness has Esther call the king 'the lion' ('הושיעני מפי אריה'), the same distinctive epithet the plus uses ('before the lion') for Ahasuerus; not MT (MT never calls the king a lion).

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'במוך היתה משמשת' — Esther used a barrier device to avoid real union with the gentile king — a concrete practice expressing exactly the plus's abhorrence of the bed of the uncircumcised; not MT material.

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Esther is fed Jewish food/seeds rather than the king's fare — a specific dietary abstention matching the plus's claim she never honored the king's banquet; MT says nothing of her diet.

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'לא טעמה כלום אלא משלה ולא משלחנו של מלך' closely matches the plus's 'has not eaten at the table... nor honored the king's banquet'; not MT material.

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The doomed children's weeping 'נשמעה בכיתן במרום' immediately precedes God tearing up the decree, matching the plus's 'hear the voice of the despairing, and deliver us from the hand of the wicked'; not MT material.

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Angels force the king's face toward her and his eyes are opened so he extends the sceptre — the same divine reversal the plus ascribes to God changing the king's spirit to gentleness; absent from MT.

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One angel 'הגביה את צוארה' while another stretches the sceptre to reach her — both locate the royal contact specifically at her neck, matching the plus's king touching the golden rod to her neck; not MT (MT has only the sceptre extended, no neck).

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The king's belated regret over Vashti's death and blame on his seven princes matches the plus's counselors whose persuasion made the ruler a partner in innocent blood; MT never states Vashti was killed, so the regret motif is a genuine addition.

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The same passage makes the advisers, not the king, the culprits who are punished for deceiving him — matching the plus's 'deceiving... the sincere good faith of those who hold power'; not MT material.

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The same sentence makes Haman's sons commanders throughout the world poised to seize power at his word, matching the plus's hidden aim of transferring the dominion; not MT material.

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'שבר את החותמות וקרע את האגרת והפר עצתו' — physically annulling Haman's sealed letters — matches the very device of Addition E's second letter, 'do not act on the letters sent by Haman'; MT's solution is a second decree, not annulment of the first.

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'לעשות כרצון מרדכי והמן... לרומם אחד ולצלוב אחד' names Mordecai and Haman as the two irreconcilable figures resolved only by raising one and hanging the other — the specific identification Addition F makes of the two dragons; not MT material.

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The fasting children cry out, are heard, and the decree is torn up — matching the plus's 'my nation is Israel, who cried out to God and were saved'; not MT material.

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