Deuterocanon & Apocrypha · 10 chapters
Greek Esther
The Greek form of Esther includes prayers, royal letters and other passages beyond the shorter Hebrew form. Read it here as a complete book, so the additions remain in their narrative setting.
Place in the traditions
The additions to Esther are received as Scripture in Catholic and Orthodox traditions. Protestant Bibles generally use the shorter form, sometimes printing the additions in an Apocrypha.
Catholic canon · WEB collection and contentsThe edition you are reading
World English Bible (WEB), Deuterocanon/Apocrypha. Public-domain text from eBible.org. This collection brings together works received differently by different churches; inclusion here does not assign them all the same canonical status. Source verse numbering is retained, including gaps where the source has no text. This is a separate book form. Its verses should not be assumed to align with the shorter Esther elsewhere in this library. The source groups some lettered additions into a single numbered verse; the full text is retained.
WEB text and editionBookmarks, highlights, notes and offline saving work in this collection. Verse comparisons appear when more than one edition is available. The existing cross-reference and Strong's datasets cover the original 66-book collection.