Apocrypha / deuterocanonical book
Additions to Esther
7 chapters
Additions to Esther is part of the Apocrypha: printed in the 1611 King James Bible, read as scripture in Catholic and Orthodox traditions, and placed between the Testaments in Protestant Bibles that include it. The text here is the public-domain King James Apocrypha. Its chapters are numbered 10-16 because the book keeps its historic position inside a longer book.
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Then Mardocheus said, God hath done these things.
In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemeus and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said he was a priest and Levite, and Ptolemeu...
And Mardocheus took his rest in the court with Gabatha and Tharra, the two eunuchs of the king, and keepers of the palac...
The copy of the letters was this: The great king Artexerxes writeth these things to the princes and governours that are ...
Queen Esther also, being in fear of death, resorted unto the Lord:
And upon the third day, when she had ended her prayers, she laid away her mourning garments, and put on her glorious app...
The great king Artexerxes unto the princes and governors of an hundred and seven and twenty provinces from India unto Et...