Apocrypha / Deuterocanonical Books

Additions to Esther
(Douay-Reims Bible)

10:4-13
11
12
13
14
15
16

Absurdities
Injustice
Cruelty and Violence
Intolerance
Women
Sex

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Dwindling in Unbelief
-Esther
-Apocrypha

Additions to Esther: Absurdity

1. Modecai's dream
   "The little fountain which grew into a river ... is Esther ... The two dragons are I and Aman." 10:6-10

2. Esther prayed to God, after pulling out her hair and covering her head with dung. 14:1-2

3. I ... abhor the bed of the uncircumcised." 14:15

4. "I ... detest it as a menstruous rag." 14:16

5. Esther calls upon God and God softens the king's heart (so that he'd murder thousands of non-Jews). 15:3-11

6. The king decrees that Haman and his family shall hang; that everyone in the kingdom who wanted to kill the Jews shall be killed; that whoever refuses to kill the people that wanted to kill Jews will be killed by sword and fire; and that everyone will celebrate the killing of the wannabe Jew killers forever. 16:10-18