Assuerus subdueth many countries. 4. Mardocheus understandeth, and declareth his dream. 9. God separateth his people from other nations by a better lot.Assuerus subdueth manie countries. 4. Mardocheus Vnderstandeth, and declareth his dreame. 9. God separateth his people from other nations by a better lotte.✦
But king Assuerus made all the earth, and all the islands of the sea tributaries.BVt king Assuerus made al the earth, and al the ilandes of the sea tributaries.✦Rex vero Assuerus omnem terram et cunctas maris insulas fecit tributarias :
2Whose strength and empire, and the dignity and highness, wherewith he exalted Mardocheus, are written in the books of the Medes, and of the Persians:Whose strength and empire, and the dignitie and highnesse, wherewith he exalted Mardocheus, are written in the bookes of the Medes, and of the Persians:cujus fortitudo et imperium, et dignitas atque sublimitas, qua exaltavit Mardochæum, scripta sunt in libris Medorum, atque Persarum :
3and how Mardocheus of the Jews' kindred was second after king Assuerus: and great with the Jews, and acceptable to the people of his brethren, seeking good to his people, and speaking those things, which pertained to the good of his seed.and how Mardocheus of the Iewes kinred was second after king Assuerus: and great with the Iewes, and acceptable to the people of his bretheren, seking good to his people, and speaking those things, which pertayned to the good of his seede.✦et quomodo Mardochæus judaici generis secundus a rege Assuero fuerit, et magnus apud Judæos, et acceptabilis plebi fratrum suorum, quærens bona populo suo, et loquens ea quæ ad pacem seminis sui pertinerent.
4And Mardocheus said: These things are done of God.And Mardocheus said: These things are done of God.✦Dixitque Mardochæus : A Deo facta sunt ista.
5I remember the dream that I saw, signifying these very things: neither was any of them irritum: thwarted; void: of no effect.I remember the dreame that I saw, signifying these verie things: neither was any of them frustrate.✦Recordatus sum somnii quod videram, hæc eadem significantis : nec eorum quidquam irritum fuit.
6The little fountain which grew into a river, and was turned into light, and into the sun, and abounded into many waters, is Esther, whom the king took to wife, and made her to be queen.The litle fountayne which grew into a riuer, and was turned into light, and into the sunne, and abounded into manie waters, is Esther, whom the king tooke to wife, and made her to be queene.✦Parvus fons, qui crevit in fluvium, et in lucem solemque conversus est, et in aquas plurimas redundavit : Esther est quam rex accepit uxorem, et voluit esse reginam.
7But the two dragons: I am, and Aman.But the two dragons: I am, and Aman.✦Duo autem dracones : ego sum, et Aman.
8The nations, that were assembled: are they that endeavoured to destroy the name of the Jews.The nations, that were assembled: are they that endeuoured to destroy the name of the Iewes.Gentes, quæ convenerant : hi sunt, qui conati sunt delere nomen Judæorum.
9And my nation: is Israel, which cried to our Lord, and our Lord hath saved his people: and he hath delivered us from all evils, and hath done great signs and wonders among the nations:And my nation: is Israel, which cried to our Lord, and our Lord hath saued his people: and he hath deliuered vs from al euils, and hath done great signes and wonders among the nations:Gens autem mea Israël est, quæ clamavit ad Dominum, et salvum fecit Dominus populum suum : liberavitque nos ab omnibus malis, et fecit signa magna atque portenta inter gentes :
10and he commanded that there should be two lots, one of the people of God, and the other of all Nations.and he commanded that there should be two lottes, one of the people of God, and the other of al Nations.✦et duas sortes esse præcepit, unam populi Dei, et alteram cunctarum gentium.
11And both lots are come to the day appointed even now from that time before God to all nations:And both lottes are come to the day appointed euen now from that time before God to al nations:✦Venitque utraque sors in statutum ex illo jam tempore diem coram Deo universis gentibus :
12and our Lord hath remembered his people, and hath had mercy on his inheritance.and our Lord hath remembred his people, and hath had mercie on his inheritance.✦et recordatus est Dominus populi sui, ac misertus est hæreditatis suæ.
13And these days shall be observed in the month of Adar the fourteenth, and fifteenth day of the same month, with all diligence, and joy of the people gathered into one assembly, throughout all the generations hereafter of the people of Israel.And these daies shal be obserued in the moneth of Adar the fourtenth, and fistenth day of the same moneth, with al diligence, and ioy of the people gathered into one assemblie, through out al the generations hereafter of the people of Israel.Et observabuntur dies isti in mense Adar quartadecima et quintadecima die ejusdem mensis, cum omni studio et gaudio, in unum cœtum populi congregati, in cunctas deinceps generationes populi Israël.
The reading text follows the 1582 first edition.