Esther 2 (Greek, Swete) — Coptic · Cairene

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Source: Swete, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint (Cambridge 1896-1912), via nathans/lxx-swete; Esther 2; verse table corpus/greek/verses.tsv (tools/greek_verses_index.py, outputs/REPORT-W2-ingest.md)

Attribution: Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, ed. Henry Barclay Swete (Cambridge University Press, 1896-1912). TEI text from the Open Greek and Latin Project, First1KGreek (urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527), CC BY-SA 4.0; tokenised edition lxx-swete by Nathan D. Smith (https://github.com/nathans/lxx-swete), CC BY-SA 4.0 (text), MIT (code). Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this derivative is released under the same licence. Re-cut into one line per verse by tools/greek_verses_index.py and filed by tools/build_repository.py; the wording is unchanged, and the only renumbering is the Psalter (title = verse 0 and the poem numbered from 1, ruled 2026-09-10; every label Swete prints is kept in corpus/greek/verses.tsv, column swete_verse).

Licence: CC-BY-SA 4.0 — Swete's Greek text via the Open Greek and Latin Project (First1KGreek, urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527) and the tokenised edition nathans/lxx-swete, both CC BY-SA 4.0 (repository README + upstream license.md, read 2026-09-10; outputs/REPORT-W2-terms.md, LICENCES.md §12.1)

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The text

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ref	L0 witness
2:1	Καὶ μετὰ τοὺς λόγους τούτους ἐκόπασεν ὁ βασιλεὺς τοῦ θυμοῦ, καὶ οὐκέτι ἐμνήσθη τῆς Ἀστίν, μνημονεύων οἷα ἐλάλησεν καὶ ὡς κατέκρινεν αὐτήν.
2:2	καὶ εἶπαν οἱ διάκονοι τοῦ βασιλέως Ζητηθήτω τῷ βασιλεῖ κοράσια ἄφθορα καλὰ τῷ εἴδει·
2:3	καὶ καταστήσει ὁ βασιλεὺς κωμάρχας ἐν πάσαις ταῖς χώραις τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐπιλεξάτωσαν κοράσια παρθενικὰ καλὰ τῷ εἴδει εἰς Σουσὰν τὴν πόλιν εἰς τὸν γυναικῶνα, καὶ παραδοθήτωσαν τῷ εὐνούχῳ τοῦ βασιλέως τῷ φύλακι τῶν γυναικῶν, καὶ δοθήτω σμῆγμα καὶ ἡ λοιπὴ ἐπιμέλεια
2:4	καὶ ἡ γυνὴ ἣ ἂν ἀρέσῃ τῷ βασιλεῖ βασιλεύσει ἀντὶ Ἀστιν. καὶ ἤρεσεν τῷ βασιλεῖ τὸ πρόσταγμα, καὶ ἐποίησεν οὕτως.
2:5	Καὶ ἄνθρωπος ἦν Ἰουδαῖος ἐν Σούσοις τῇ πόλει, καὶ ὄνομα αὐτῷ Μαρδοχαῖος ὁ τοῦ Ἰαείρου τοῦ Σεμεείου τοῦ Κεισαίου ἐκ φυλῆς Βενιαμείν,
2:6	ὃς ἦν αἰχμάλωτος ἐξ Ἰερουσαλὴμ ἣν ᾐχμαλώτευσεν Ναβουχοδονοσὸρ βασιλεὺς Βαβυλῶνος.
2:7	καὶ ἦν τούτῳ παῖς θρεπτή, θυγάτηρ Ἀμειναδὰβ ἀδελφοῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ, καὶ ὄνομα αὐτῇ Ἐσθήρ· ἐν δὲ τῷ μεταλλάξαι αὐτῆς τοὺς γονεῖς ἐπαίδευσεν αὐτὴν ἑαυτῷ εἰς γυναῖκα· καὶ ἦν τὸ κοράσιον καλὸν τῷ εἴδει.
2:8	καὶ ὅτε ἠκούσθη τὸ τοῦ βασιλέως πρόσταγμα, συνήχθησαν κοράσια πολλὰ εἰς Σουσὰν τὴν πόλιν ὑπὸ χεῖρα Γαί, καὶ ἤχθη Ἐσθὴρ πρὸς Γαὶ τὸν φύλακα τῶν γυναικῶν.
2:9	καὶ ἤρεσεν αὐτῷ τὸ κοράσιον, καὶ εὗρεν χάριν ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἔσπευσεν αὐτῇ δοῦναι τὸ σμῆγμα καὶ τὴν μερίδα καὶ τὰ ἑπτὰ κοράσια τὰ ἀποδεδιγμένα αὐτῇ ἐκ βασιλικοῦ, καὶ ἐχρήσατο αὐτῇ καλῶς καὶ ταῖς ἅβραις αὐτῆς ἐν τῷ γυναικῶνι·
2:10	καὶ οὐχ ὑπέδειξεν ἑσθὴρ τὸ γένος αὐτῆς οὐδὲ τὴν πατρίδα· ὁ γὰρ Μαρδοχαῖος ἐνετείλατο αὐτῇ μὴ ἀπαγγεῖλαι.
2:11	καθʼ ἑκάστην δὲ ἡμέραν ὁ Μαρδοχαῖος περιεπάτει κατὰ τὴν αὐλὴν τὴν γυναικείαν, ἐπισκοπῶν τί Ἐσθὴρ συμβήσεται.
2:12	οὗτος δὲ ἦν καιρὸς κορασίου εἰσελθεῖν πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα, ὅταν ἀναπληρώσῃ μῆνας ιβ΄· οὕτως γὰρ ἀναπληροῦνται αἱ ἡμέραι τῆς θεραπείας. μῆνας ἓξ ἀλιφόμεναι ἐν σμυρνίνῳ ἐλαίῳ, καὶ μῆνας ἓξ ἐν τοῖς ἀρώμασιν καὶ ἐν τοῖς σμήγμασιν τῶν γυναικῶν,
2:13	καὶ τότε εἰσπορεύεται πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα· καὶ ᾧ ἐὰν εἴπῃ, παραδώσει αὐτὴν συνεισέρχεσθαι αὐτῷ ἀπὸ τοῦ γυναικῶνος ἕως τῶν βασιλείων.
2:14	δείλης εἰσπορεύεται, καὶ πρὸς ἡμέραν ἀποτρέχει εἰς τὸν γυναικῶνα τὸν δεύτερον οὗ Γαὶ ὁ εὐνοῦχος τοῦ βασιλέως ὁ φύλαξ τῶν γυναικῶν, καὶ οὐκέτι εἰσπορεύεται πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα ἐὰν μὴ κληθῇ ὀνόματι.
2:15	ἐν δὲ τῷ ἀναπληροῦσθαι τὸν χρόνον Ἐσθὴρ τῆς θυγατρὸς Ἀμειναδὰβ ἀδελφοῦ πατρὸς Μαρδοχαίου εἰσελθεῖν πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα, οὐδὲν ἠθέτησεν ὧν ἐνετείλατο ὁ εὐνοῦχος ὁ φύλαξ τῶν γυναικῶν· ἦν γὰρ Ἐσθὴρ εὑρίσκουσα χάριν παρὰ πάντων τῶν βλεπόντων αὐτήν.
2:16	καὶ εἰσῆλθεν Ἐσθὴρ πρὸς Ἀρταξέρξην τὸν βασιλέα τῷ δωδεκάτῳ μηνὶ ὅς ἐστιν Ἀδάρ, τῷ ἑβδόμῳ ἔτει τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ.
2:17	καὶ ἠράσθη ὁ βασιλεὺς Ἐσθὴρ, καὶ εὗρεν χάριν παρὰ πάσας τὰς παρθένους, καὶ ἐπέθηκεν αὐτῇ τὸ διάδημα τὸ γυναικεῖον.
2:18	καὶ ἐποίησεν ὁ βασιλεὺς πότον πᾶσι τοῖς φίλοις αὐτοῦ καὶ ταῖς δυνάμεσιν ἐπὶ ἡμέρας ἑπτά, καὶ ὕψωσεν τοὺς γάμους Ἐσθὴρ, καὶ ἄφεσιν ἐποίησεν τοῖς ὑπὸ τὴν βασιλείαν αὐτοῦ.
2:19	ὁ δὲ Μαρδοχαῖος ἐθεράπευεν ἐν τῆ αὐλῇ.
2:20	ἡ δὲ Ἐσθὴρ οὐχ ὑπέδειξεν τὴν πατρίδα αὐτῆς· οὕτως γὰρ ἐνετείλατο αὐτῇ Μαρδοχαῖος, φοβεῖσθαι τὸν θεὸν καὶ ποιεῖν τὰ προστάγματα αὐτοῦ, καθὼς ἦν μετʼ αὐτοῦ· καὶ Ἐσθὴρ οὐ μετήλλαξεν τὴν ἀγωγὴν αὐτῆς.
2:21	καὶ ἐλυπήθησαν οἱ δύο εὐνοῦχοι τοῦ βασιλέως οἱ ἀρχισωματοφύλακες ὅτι προήχθη Μαρδοχαῖος. καὶ ἐζήτουν ἀποκτεῖναι Ἀρταξέρξην τὸν βασιλέα.
2:22	καὶ ἐδηλώθη Μαρδοχαίῳ ὁ λόγος, καὶ ἐσήμανεν Ἐσθὴρ, καὶ αὐτὴ ἐνεφάνισεν τῷ βασιλεῖ τὰ τῆς ἐπιβουλῆς.
2:23	ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς ἤτασεν τοὺς δύο εὐνούχους καὶ ἐκρέμασεν αὐτούς· καὶ προσέταξεν ὁ βασιλεὺς καταχωρίσαι εἰς μνημόσυνον ἐν τῇ βασιλικῇ βιβλιοθήκῃ ὑπὲρ τῆς εὐνοίας Μαρδοχαίου ἐν ἐγκωμίῳ.

Provenance

title: Esther 2 (Greek, Swete)
dialect: greek
source: Swete, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint (Cambridge 1896-1912), via nathans/lxx-swete; Esther 2; verse table corpus/greek/verses.tsv (tools/greek_verses_index.py, outputs/REPORT-W2-ingest.md)
licence: CC-BY-SA 4.0 — Swete's Greek text via the Open Greek and Latin Project (First1KGreek, urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527) and the tokenised edition nathans/lxx-swete, both CC BY-SA 4.0 (repository README + upstream license.md, read 2026-09-10; outputs/REPORT-W2-terms.md, LICENCES.md §12.1)
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attribution: Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, ed. Henry Barclay Swete (Cambridge University Press, 1896-1912). TEI text from the Open Greek and Latin Project, First1KGreek (urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527), CC BY-SA 4.0; tokenised edition lxx-swete by Nathan D. Smith (https://github.com/nathans/lxx-swete), CC BY-SA 4.0 (text), MIT (code). Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this derivative is released under the same licence. Re-cut into one line per verse by tools/greek_verses_index.py and filed by tools/build_repository.py; the wording is unchanged, and the only renumbering is the Psalter (title = verse 0 and the poem numbered from 1, ruled 2026-09-10; every label Swete prints is kept in corpus/greek/verses.tsv, column swete_verse).
file: Bible/Old Testament/Esther/02.greek.swete.L0.txt

Cite as:

Esther 2 (Greek, Swete). Swete, The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint (Cambridge 1896-1912), via nathans/lxx-swete; Esther 2; verse table corpus/greek/verses.tsv (tools/greek_verses_index.py, outputs/REPORT-W2-ingest.md). Layers as published by the Kemetic project (Yousef Hanna), 2026: Coptic · Cairene · Kemetic, /doc/bible/old-testament/esther/02.greek.swete/. Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), The Old Testament in Greek according to the Septuagint, ed. Henry Barclay Swete (Cambridge University Press, 1896-1912). TEI text from the Open Greek and Latin Project, First1KGreek (urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0527), CC BY-SA 4.0; tokenised edition lxx-swete by Nathan D. Smith (https://github.com/nathans/lxx-swete), CC BY-SA 4.0 (text), MIT (code). Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); this derivative is released under the same licence. Re-cut into one line per verse by tools/greek_verses_index.py and filed by tools/build_repository.py; the wording is unchanged, and the only renumbering is the Psalter (title = verse 0 and the poem numbered from 1, ruled 2026-09-10; every label Swete prints is kept in corpus/greek/verses.tsv, column swete_verse).

What the layers are

L0 witness
The text as its witness or edition has it, original spelling; its dialect is a description and is never standardized.

L0.5 transliteration
For Egyptian texts: the transliteration with the editors' marks turned into the symbols ° * < > _ ^ (ruled 2026-09-10). For papyri: the edition's Leiden marks as the same symbols, and the editors' readings beside the scribe's as ‹scribe→editors› (ruled PAP-3).

L1 Cairene
Standardized Greco-Bohairic spelling and grammar, generated by code from the layer above under the rulings of the project.

L2 Kemetic
The Kemetic alphabet, generated by code from L1.

English
Quoted translations where they exist, credited; otherwise model drafts, marked as drafts.