3.  And in many other of the sacred books I found sometimes more in our copies than in the Hebrew, sometimes less.  I shall adduce a few examples, since it is impossible to give them all.  Of the Book of Esther neither the prayer of Mardochaios nor that of Esther, both fitted to edify the reader, is found in the Hebrew.  Neither are the letters;3    This should probably be corrected, with Pat. Jun., into, “Nor are the letters, neither,” etc. nor the one written to Amman about the rooting up of the Jewish nation, nor that of Mardochaios in the name of Artaxerxes delivering the nation from death.  Then in Job, the words from “It is written, that he shall rise again with those whom the Lord raises,” to the end, are not in the Hebrew, and so not in Aquila’s edition; while they are found in the Septuagint and in Theodotion’s version, agreeing with each other at least in sense.  And many other places I found in Job where our copies have more than the Hebrew ones, sometimes a little more, and sometimes a great deal more:  a little more, as when to the words, “Rising up in the morning, he offered burnt-offerings for them according to their number,” they add, “one heifer for the sin of their soul;” and to the words, “The angels of God came to present themselves before God, and the devil came with them,” “from going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”  Again, after “The Lord gave, the Lord has taken away,” the Hebrew has not, “It was so, as seemed good to the Lord.”  Then our copies are very much fuller than the Hebrew, when Job’s wife speaks to him, from “How long wilt thou hold out?  And he said, Lo, I wait yet a little while, looking for the hope of my salvation,” down to “that I may cease from my troubles, and my sorrows which compass me.”  For they have only these words of the woman, “But say a word against God, and die.”

γ. Καὶ ἐν ἄλλοις δὲ πολλοῖς ἁγίοις βιβλίοις εὕρομεν, πὴ μὲν πλείονα παρ' ἡμῖν κείμενα ἢ παρ' Ἑβραίοις, πὴ δὲ λείποντα. Παραδείγματος δὲ ἕνεκεν, ἐπεὶ μὴ πάντα οἷόν τέ ἐστι περιλαβεῖν, ὀλίγα ἐκθησόμεθα. Οἷον ἐκ τῆς Ἐσθὴρ οὔτε ἡ τοῦ Μαρδοχαίου εὐχὴ, οὔτε ἡ τῆς Ἐσθὴρ, οἰκοδομῆσαι δυνάμεναι τὸν ἐντυγχάνοντα, παρ' Ἑβραίοις φέρονται: ἀλλ' οὐδὲ αἱ ἐπιστολαί: ἀλλ' οὐδὲ ἡ τῷ Ἀμμὰν ἐπὶ καθαιρέσει τοῦ τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἔθνους γεγραμμένη, οὐδὲ ἡ τοῦ Μαρδοχαίου ἐξ ὀνόματος Ἀρταξέρξου ἀπολύουσα τοῦ θανάτου τὸ ἔθνος. Ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἰὼβ, τὰ ἀπὸ τοῦ: »Γέγραπται δὲ αὐτὸν πάλιν ἀναστήσεσθαι, μεθ' ὧν ὁ Κύριος ἀνίστησιν,« ἄχρι τέλους, οὐ κεῖται παρὰ τοῖς Ἑβραίοις: διόπερ οὐδὲ παρὰ τῷ Ἀκύλᾳ: παρὰ δὲ τοῖς Οʹ, καὶ Θεοδοτίωνι τὰ ἰσοδυναμοῦντα ἀλλήλοις. Καὶ ἄλλα δὲ μυρία εὕρομεν ἐν τῷ Ἰὼβ, καὶ κατ' ὀλίγον, καὶ ἐπὶ πλέον ἐν τοῖς ἡμετέροις ἀντιγράφοις, ἢ ἐν τοῖς παρὰ Ἰουδαίοις, κατ' ὀλίγον μὲν, ὅτε »ἀνιστάμενος τὸ πρωῒ προσέφερε περὶ αὐτῶν θυσίας, κατὰ τὸν ἀριθμὸν αὐτῶν,« τό: »μόσχον ἕνα περὶ ἁμαρτίας περὶ τῶν ψυχῶν αὐτῶν.« Καὶ ὅτε »ἦλθον οἱ ἄγγελοι τοῦ Θεοῦ παραστῆναι ἐνώπιον τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ ὁ διάβολος ἦλθε μετ' αὐτῶν,« τό: »Περιελθὼν τὴν γῆν καὶ ἐμπεριπατήσας ἐν αὐτῇ.« Ἔτι δὲ οὐκ ἦν παρ' Ἑβραίοις μετὰ τό: Ὁ Κύριος ἔδωκεν, ὁ Κύριος ἀφείλετο: »Ὡς τῷ Κυρίῳ ἔδοξεν, οὕτω καὶ ἐγένετο.« Πλείονα δὲ ἐν τοῖς ἡμετέροις παρὰ τὰ Ἑβραϊκὰ, ὅτε εἶπε τῷ Ἰὼβ ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ, ἀπὸ τοῦ: »Μέχρι τίνος καρτερήσεις; λέγων: Ἰδοὺ, ἀναμενῶ χρόνον ἔτι μικρὸν προσδεχόμενος τὴν ἐλπίδα τῆς σωτηρίας μου,« ἕως τοῦ: »ἵνα ἀναπαύσωμαι τῶν μόχθων μου καὶ τῶν ὀδυνῶν, αἵ με νῦν συνέχουσι:« μόνον γὰρ τὰ ῥητὰ τῆς γυναικὸς ἀναγέγραπται: τό: »Ἀλλ' εἶπόν τι ῥῆμα πρὸς Κύριον, καὶ τελεύτα.«