translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: EST

label: NET translator note

text: Heb “great”; NRSV “powerful”; NIV “prominent”; NCV “very important.”


text: Heb “the man Mordecai” (so NASB, NRSV).


label: NET textual note

text: For this number much of the Greek MS tradition reads “fifteen thousand.” The Lucianic Greek recension reads “70,100.”


text: Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Heb “his”; the referent (Haman) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: The LXX and the Syriac Peshitta omit the word “second.”


text: The present translation is based on the Niphal form וַיּשָּׁלַח ( vayyishalakh , “were sent”; so also NRSV, TEV, CEV, NLT) rather than the reading of the MT וַיּשְׁלַח ( vayyishlakh , Qal, “and he sent”). The subject of the MT verb would have to be Mordecai (cf. NAB, NIV, NCV), but this is problematic in light of v. 29 , where both Esther and Mordecai are responsible for the letters.


text: Heb “peace and truth.” The expression is probably a hendiadys (see the note on 5:10 for an explanation of this figure).


text: Heb “written in the book” (so NASB); NIV, NLT “written down in the records”; NRSV “recorded in writing.”