Mordecai and Esther Wall Painting, Dura-Europos

[Pharaoh said:] Come, let us deal wisely with him [the Israelites—Ed.], [lest he multiply, and it come to pass that when there befalls us any war, he will also join our enemies and fight against us…

His [Job’s] property was brought forth and divided among his seven sons, but he did not give anything to his three daughters. Very…

5. He fostered Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter, for she had neither father nor mother, and the girl was fair and beautiful; and with the…