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1:1 And it cometh to pass, in the days of Ahasuerus -- he [is]
Ahasuerus who is reigning from Hodu even unto Cush, seven and
twenty and a hundred provinces --
1:2 in those days, at the sitting of the king Ahasuerus on the
throne of his kingdom, that [is] in Shushan the palace,
1:3 in the third year of his reign, he hath made a banquet to
all his heads and his servants; of the force of Persia and
Media, the chiefs and heads of the provinces [are] before him,
1:4 in his shewing the wealth of the honour of his kingdom, and
the glory of the beauty of his greatness, many days -- eighty
and a hundred days.
1:5 And at the fulness of these days hath the king made to all
the people who are found in Shushan the palace, from great even
unto small, a banquet, seven days, in the court of the garden
of the house of the king --
1:6 white linen, white cotton, and blue, fastened with cords of
fine linen and purple on rings of silver, and pillars of
marble, couches of gold, and of silver, on a pavement of
smaragdus, and white marble, and mother-of-pearl, and black
marble --
1:7 and the giving of drink in vessels of gold, and the vessels
[are] divers vessels, and the royal wine [is] abundant, as a
memorial of the king.
1:8 And the drinking [is] according to law, none is pressing,
for so hath the king appointed for every chief one of his
house, to do according to the pleasure of man and man.
1:9 Also Vashti the queen hath made a banquet for women, in the
royal house that the king Ahasuerus hath.
1:10 On the seventh day, as the heart of the king is glad with
wine, he hath said to Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and
Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven eunuchs who are
ministering in the presence of the king Ahasuerus,
1:11 to bring in Vashti the queen before the king, with a royal
crown, to shew the peoples and the heads her beauty, for she
[is] of good appearance,
1:12 and the queen Vashti refuseth to come in at the word of the
king that [is] by the hand of the eunuchs, and the king is very
wroth, and his fury hath burned in him.
1:13 And the king saith to wise men, knowing the times -- for so
[is] the word of the king before all knowing law and judgment,
1:14 and he who is near unto him [is] Carshena, Shethar,
Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, Memucan, seven heads of
Persia and Media seeing the face of the king, who are sitting
first in the kingdom --
1:15 `According to law, what -- to do with queen Vashti, because
that she hath not done the saying of the king Ahasuerus by the
hand of the eunuchs?'
1:16 And Memucan saith before the king and the heads, `Not
against the king by himself hath Vashti the queen done
perversely, but against all the heads, and against all the
peoples that [are] in all provinces of the king Ahasuerus;
1:17 for go forth doth the word of the queen unto all the women,
to render their husbands contemptible in their eyes, in their
saying, The king Ahasuerus said to bring in Vashti the queen
before him, and she did not come;
1:18 yea, this day do princesses of Persia and Media, who have
heard the word of the queen, say [so] to all heads of the king,
even according to the sufficiency of contempt and wrath.
1:19 `If to the king [it be] good, there goeth forth a royal
word from before him, and it is written with the laws of Persia
and Media, and doth not pass away, that Vashti doth not come in
before the king Ahasuerus, and her royalty doth the king give
to her companion who [is] better than she;
1:20 and the sentence of the king that he maketh hath been heard
in all his kingdom -- for it [is] great -- and all the wives
give honour to their husbands, from great even unto small.'
1:21 And the thing is good in the eyes of the king, and of the
princes, and the king doth according to the word of Memucan,
1:22 and sendeth letters unto all provinces of the king, unto
province and province according to its writing, and unto people
and people according to its tongue, for every man being head in
his own house -- and speaking according to the language of his
people.
2:1 After these things, at the ceasing of the fury of the king
Ahasuerus, he hath remembered Vashti, and that which she did,
and that which hath been decreed concerning her;
2:2 and servants of the king, his ministers, say, `Let them seek
for the king young women, virgins, of good appearance,
2:3 and the king doth appoint inspectors in all provinces of his
kingdom, and they gather every young woman -- virgin, of good
appearance -- unto Shushan the palace, unto the house of the
women, unto the hand of Hege eunuch of the king, keeper of the
women, and to give their purifications,
2:4 and the young woman who is good in the eyes of the king doth
reign instead of Vashti;' and the thing is good in the eyes of
the king, and he doth so.
2:5 A man, a Jew, there hath been in Shushan the palace, and his
name [is] Mordecai son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, a
Benjamite --
2:6 who had been removed from Jerusalem with the removal that
was removed with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar
king of Babylon removed --
2:7 and he is supporting Hadassah -- she [is] Esther -- daughter
of his uncle, for she hath neither father nor mother, and the
young woman [is] of fair form, and of good appearance, and at
the death of her father and her mother hath Mordecai taken her
to him for a daughter.
2:8 And it cometh to pass, in the word of the king, even his
law, being heard, and in many young women being gathered unto
Shushan the palace, unto the hand of Hegai, that Esther is
taken unto the house of the king, unto the hand of Hegai,
keeper of the women,
2:9 and the young woman is good in his eyes, and she receiveth
kindness before him, and he hasteneth her purifications and her
portions -- to give to her, and the seven young women who are
provided -- to give to her, from the house of the king, and he
changeth her and her young women to a good [place in] the house
of the women.
2:10 Esther hath not declared her people, and her kindred, for
Mordecai hath laid a charge on her that she doth not declare
[it];
2:11 and during every day Mordecai is walking up and down before
the court of the house of the women to know the welfare of
Esther, and what is done with her.
2:12 And in the drawing nigh of the turn of each young woman to
come in unto the king Ahasuerus, at the end of there being to
her -- according to the law of the women -- twelve months, for
so they fulfil the days of their purifications; six months with
oil of myrrh, and six months with spices, and with the
purifications of women,
2:13 and with this the young woman hath come in unto the king,
all that she saith is given to her, to go in with her, out of
the house of the women, unto the house of the king;
2:14 in the evening she hath gone in, and in the morning she
hath turned back unto the second house of the women, unto the
hand of Shaashgaz eunuch of the king, keeper of the concubines;
she cometh not in any more unto the king except the king hath
delighted in her, and she hath been called by name.
2:15 And in the drawing nigh of the turn of Esther -- daughter
of Abihail, uncle of Mordecai, whom he had taken to him for a
daughter -- to come in unto the king, she hath not sought a
thing except that which Hegai eunuch of the king, keeper of the
women, saith, and Esther is receiving grace in the eyes of all
seeing her.
2:16 And Esther is taken unto the king Ahasuerus, unto his royal
house, in the tenth month -- it [is] the month of Tebeth -- in
the seventh year of his reign,
2:17 and the king loveth Esther above all the women, and she
receiveth grace and kindness before him above all the virgins,
and he setteth a royal crown on her head, and causeth her to
reign instead of Vashti,
2:18 and the king maketh a great banquet to all his heads and
his servants -- the banquet of Esther -- and a release to the
provinces hath made, and giveth gifts as a memorial of the
king.
2:19 And in the virgins being gathered a second time, then
Mordecai is sitting in the gate of the king;
2:20 Esther is not declaring her kindred and her people, as
Mordecai hath laid a charge upon her, and the saying of
Mordecai Esther is doing as when she was truly with him.
2:21 In those days, when Mordecai is sitting in the gate of the
king, hath Bigthan been wroth, and Teresh, (two of the eunuchs
of the king, the keepers of the threshold,) and they seek to
put forth a hand on king Ahasuerus,
2:22 and the thing is known to Mordecai, and he declareth [it]
to Esther the queen, and Esther speaketh to the king in the
name of Mordecai,
2:23 and the thing is sought out, and found, and they are hanged
both of them on a tree, and it is written in the book of the
Chronicles before the king.
3:1 After these things hath the king Ahasuerus exalted Haman son
of Hammedatha the Agagite, and lifteth him up, and setteth his
throne above all the heads who [are] with him,
3:2 and all servants of the king, who [are] in the gate of the
king, are bowing and doing obeisance to Haman, for so hath the
king commanded for him; and Mordecai doth not bow nor do
obeisance.
3:3 And the servants of the king, who [are] in the gate of the
king, say to Mordecai, `Wherefore [art] thou transgressing the
command of the king?'
3:4 And it cometh to pass, in their speaking unto him, day by
day, and he hath not hearkened unto them, that they declare
[it] to Haman, to see whether the words of Mordecai do stand,
for he hath declared to them that he [is] a Jew.
3:5 And Haman seeth that Mordecai is not bowing and doing
obeisance to him, and Haman is full of fury,
3:6 and it is contemptible in his eyes to put forth a hand on
Mordecai by himself, for they have declared to him the people
of Mordecai, and Haman seeketh to destroy all the Jews who
[are] in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus -- the people of
Mordecai.
3:7 In the first month -- it [is] the month of Nisan -- in the
twelfth year of the king Ahasuerus, hath one caused to fall Pur
(that [is] the lot) before Haman, from day to day, and from
month to month, [to] the twelfth, it [is] the month of Adar.
3:8 And Haman saith to the king Ahasuerus, `There is one people
scattered and separated among the peoples, in all provinces of
thy kingdom, and their laws [are] diverse from all people, and
the laws of the king they are not doing, and for the king it is
not profitable to suffer them;
3:9 if to the king [it be] good, let it be written to destroy
them, and ten thousand talents of silver I weigh into the hands
of those doing the work, to bring [it] in unto the treasuries
of the king.'
3:10 And the king turneth aside his signet from off his hand,
and giveth it to Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, adversary
of the Jews;
3:11 and the king saith to Haman, `The silver is given to thee,
and the people, to do with it as [it is] good in thine eyes.'
3:12 And scribes of the king are called, on the first month, on
the thirteenth day of it, and it is written according to all
that Haman hath commanded, unto lieutenants of the king, and
unto the governors who [are] over province and province, and
unto the heads of people and people, province and province,
according to its writing, and people and people according to
its tongue, in the name of the king Ahasuerus it hath been
written and sealed with the signet of the king,
3:13 and letters to be sent by the hand of the runners unto all
provinces of the king, to cut off, to slay, and to destroy all
the Jews, from young even unto old, infant and women, on one
day, on the thirteenth of the twelfth month -- it [is] the
month of Adar -- and their spoil to seize,
3:14 a copy of the writing to be made law in every province and
province is revealed to all the peoples, to be ready for this
day.
3:15 The runners have gone forth, hastened by the word of the
king, and the law hath been given in Shushan the palace, and
the king and Haman have sat down to drink, and the city Shushan
is perplexed.
4:1 And Mordecai hath known all that hath been done, and
Mordecai rendeth his garments, and putteth on sackcloth and
ashes, and goeth forth into the midst of the city and crieth --
a cry loud and bitter,
4:2 and he cometh in unto the front of the gate of the king, but
none is to come in unto the gate of the king with a
sackcloth-garment.
4:3 And in every province and province, the place where the word
of the king, even his law, is coming, a great mourning have the
Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and lamenting: sackcloth and
ashes are spread for many.
4:4 And young women of Esther come in and her eunuchs, and
declare [it] to her, and the queen is exceedingly pained, and
sendeth garments to clothe Mordecai, and to turn aside his
sackcloth from off him, and he hath not received [them].
4:5 And Esther calleth to Hatach, of the eunuchs of the king,
whom he hath stationed before her, and giveth him a charge for
Mordecai, to know what this [is], and wherefore this [is].
4:6 And Hatach goeth out unto Mordecai, unto a broad place of
the city, that [is] before the gate of the king,
4:7 and Mordecai declareth to him all that hath met him, and the
explanation of the money that Haman said to weigh to the
treasuries of the king for the Jews, to destroy them,
4:8 and the copy of the writing of the law that had been given
in Shushan to destroy them he hath given to him, to shew
Esther, and to declare [it] to her, and to lay a charge on her
to go in unto the king, to make supplication to him, and to
seek from before him, for her people.
4:9 And Hatach cometh in and declareth to Esther the words of
Mordecai,
4:10 and Esther speaketh to Hatach, and chargeth him for
Mordecai:
4:11 `All servants of the king, and people of the provinces of
the king, do know that any man and woman, who cometh in unto
the king, unto the inner court, who is not called -- one law
[of] his [is] to put [them] to death, apart from him to whom
the king holdeth out the golden sceptre, then he hath lived;
and I -- I have not been called to come in unto the king these
thirty days.'
4:12 And they declare to Mordecai the words of Esther,
4:13 and Mordecai speaketh to send back unto Esther: `Do not
think in thy soul to be delivered [in] the house of the king,
more than all the Jews,
4:14 but if thou keep entirely silent at this time, respite and
deliverance remaineth to the Jews from another place, and thou
and the house of thy fathers are destroyed; and who knoweth
whether for a time like this thou hast come to the kingdom?'
4:15 And Esther speaketh to send back unto Mordecai:
4:16 `Go, gather all the Jews who are found in Shushan, and fast
for me, and do not eat nor drink three days, by night and by
day; also I and my young women do fast likewise, and so I go in
unto the king, that [is] not according to law, and when I have
perished -- I have perished.'
4:17 And Mordecai passeth on, and doth according to all that
Esther hath charged upon him.
5:1 And it cometh to pass on the third day, that Esther putteth
on royalty, and standeth in the inner-court of the house of the
king over-against the house of the king, and the king is
sitting on his royal throne, in the royal-house, over-against
the opening of the house,
5:2 and it cometh to pass, at the king's seeing Esther the queen
standing in the court, she hath received grace in his eyes, and
the king holdeth out to Esther the golden sceptre that [is] in
his hand, and Esther draweth near, and toucheth the top of the
sceptre.
5:3 And the king saith to her, `What -- to thee Esther, O queen?
and what thy request? unto the half of the kingdom -- and it is
given to thee.'
5:4 And Esther saith, `If unto the king [it be] good, the king
doth come in, and Haman, to-day, unto the banquet that I have
made for him;'
5:5 and the king saith, `Haste ye Haman -- to do the word of
Esther;' and the king cometh in, and Haman, unto the banquet
that Esther hath made.
5:6 And the king saith to Esther, during the banquet of wine,
`What [is] thy petition? and it is given to thee; and what thy
request? unto the half of the kingdom -- and it is done.'
5:7 And Esther answereth and saith, `My petition and my request
[is]:
5:8 if I have found grace in the eyes of the king, and if unto
the king [it be] good, to give my petition, and to perform my
request, the king doth come, and Haman, unto the banquet that I
make for them, and to-morrow I do according to the word of the
king.'
5:9 And Haman goeth forth on that day rejoicing and glad in
heart, and at Haman's seeing Mordecai in the gate of the king,
and he hath not risen nor moved for him, then is Haman full of
fury against Mordecai.
5:10 And Haman forceth himself, and cometh in unto his house,
and sendeth, and bringeth in his friends, and Zeresh his wife,
5:11 and Haman recounteth to them the glory of his wealth, and
the abundance of his sons, and all that with which the king
made him great, and with which he lifted him up above the heads
and servants of the king.
5:12 And Haman saith, `Yea, Esther the queen brought none in
with the king, unto the feast that she made, except myself, and
also for to-morrow I am called to her, with the king,
5:13 and all this is not profitable to me, during all the time
that I am seeing Mordecai the Jew sitting in the gate of the
king.'
5:14 And Zeresh his wife saith to him, and all his friends, `Let
them prepare a tree, in height fifty cubits, and in the morning
speak to the king, and they hang Mordecai on it, and go thou in
with the king unto the banquet rejoicing;' and the thing is
good before Haman, and he prepareth the tree.
6:1 On that night hath the sleep of the king fled away, and he
saith to bring in the book of memorials of the Chronicles, and
they are read before the king,
6:2 and it is found written that Mordecai had declared
concerning Bigthana and Teresh, two of the eunuchs of the king,
of the keepers of the threshold, who sought to put forth a hand
on king Ahasuerus.
6:3 And the king saith, `What honour and greatness hath been
done to Mordecai for this?' And the servants of the king, his
ministers, say, `Nothing hath been done with him.'
6:4 And the king saith, `Who [is] in the court?' -- and Haman
hath come in to the outer court of the house of the king, to
say to the king to hang Mordecai on the tree that he had
prepared for him --
6:5 and the servants of the king say unto him, `Lo, Haman is
standing in the court;' and the king saith, `Let him come in.'
6:6 And Haman cometh in, and the king saith to him, `What -- to
do with the man in whose honour the king hath delighted?' And
Haman saith in his heart, `To whom doth the king delight to do
honour more than myself?'
6:7 And Haman saith unto the king, `The man in whose honour the
king hath delighted,
6:8 let them bring in royal clothing that the king hath put on
himself, and a horse on which the king hath ridden, and that
the royal crown be put on his head,
6:9 and to give the clothing and the horse into the hand of a
man of the heads of the king, the chiefs, and they have
clothed the man in whose honour the king hath delighted, and
caused him to ride on the horse in a broad place of the city,
and called before him: Thus it is done to the man in whose
honour the king hath delighted.'
6:10 And the king saith to Haman, `Haste, take the clothing and
the horse, as thou hast spoken, and do so to Mordecai the Jew,
who is sitting in the gate of the king; there doth not fall a
thing of all that thou hast spoken.'
6:11 And Haman taketh the clothing, and the horse, and clothed
Mordecai, and causeth him to ride in a broad place of the city,
and calleth before him, `Thus it is done to the man in whose
honour the king hath delighted.'
6:12 And Mordecai turneth back unto the gate of the king, and
Haman hath been hastened unto his house mourning, and with
covered head,
6:13 and Haman recounteth to Zeresh his wife, and to all his
friends, all that hath met him, and his wise men say to him,
and Zeresh his wife, `If Mordecai [is] of the seed of the Jews,
before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou art not able for him,
but dost certainly fall before him.'
6:14 They are yet speaking with him, and eunuchs of the king
have come, and haste to bring in Haman unto the banquet that
Esther hath made.
7:1 And the king cometh in, and Haman, to drink with Esther the
queen,
7:2 and the king saith to Esther also on the second day, during
the banquet of wine, `What [is] thy petition, Esther, O queen?
and it is given to thee; and what thy request? unto the half of
the kingdom -- and it is done.'
7:3 And Esther the queen answereth and saith, `If I have found
grace in thine eyes, O king, and if to the king [it be] good,
let my life be given to me at my petition, and my people at my
request;
7:4 for we have been sold, I and my people, to cut off, to slay,
and to destroy; and if for men-servants and for maid-servants
we had been sold I had kept silent -- but the adversity is not
equal to the loss of the king.'
7:5 And the king Ahasuerus saith, yea, he saith to Esther the
queen, `Who [is] he -- this one? and where [is] this one? -- he
whose heart hath filled him to do so?'
7:6 And Esther saith, `The man -- adversary and enemy -- [is]
this wicked Haman;' and Haman hath been afraid at the presence
of the king and of the queen.
7:7 And the king hath risen, in his fury, from the banquet of
wine, unto the garden of the house, and Haman hath remained to
seek for his life from Esther the queen, for he hath seen that
evil hath been determined against him by the king.
7:8 And the king hath turned back out of the garden of the house
unto the house of the banquet of wine, and Haman is falling on
the couch on which Esther [is], and the king saith, `Also to
subdue the queen with me in the house?' the word hath gone out
from the mouth of the king, and the face of Haman they have
covered.
7:9 And Harbonah, one of the eunuchs, saith before the king,
`Also lo, the tree that Haman made for Mordecai, who spake good
for the king, is standing in the house of Haman, in height
fifty cubits;' and the king saith, `Hang him upon it.'
7:10 And they hang Haman upon the tree that he had prepared for
Mordecai, and the fury of the king hath lain down.
8:1 On that day hath the king Ahasuerus given to Esther the
queen the house of Haman, adversary of the Jews, and Mordecai
hath come in before the king, for Esther hath declared what he
[is] to her,
8:2 and the king turneth aside his signet, that he hath caused
to pass away from Haman, and giveth it to Mordecai, and Esther
setteth Mordecai over the house of Haman.
8:3 And Esther addeth, and speaketh before the king, and falleth
before his feet, and weepeth, and maketh supplication to him,
to cause the evil of Haman the Agagite to pass away, and his
device that he had devised against the Jews;
8:4 and the king holdeth out to Esther the golden sceptre, and
Esther riseth, and standeth before the king,
8:5 and saith, `If to the king [it be] good, and if I have found
grace before him, and the thing hath been right before the
king, and I [be] good in his eyes, let it be written to bring
back the letters -- a device of Haman son of Hammedatha the
Agagite -- that he wrote to destroy the Jews who [are] in all
provinces of the king,
8:6 for how do I endure when I have looked on the evil that doth
find my people? and how do I endure when I have looked on the
destruction of my kindred?'
8:7 And the king Ahasuerus saith to Esther the queen, and to
Mordecai the Jew, `Lo, the house of Haman I have given to
Esther, and him they have hanged on the tree, because that he
put forth his hand on the Jews,
8:8 and ye, write ye for the Jews, as [it is] good in your eyes,
in the name of the king, and seal with the signet of the king
-- for the writing that is written in the name of the king, and
sealed with the signet of the king, there is none to turn back.'
8:9 And the scribes of the king are called, at that time, in the
third month -- it [is] the month of Sivan -- in the three and
twentieth of it, and it is written, according to all that
Mordecai hath commanded, unto the Jews, and unto the
lieutenants, and the governors, and the heads of the provinces,
that [are] from Hodu even unto Cush, seven and twenty and a
hundred provinces -- province and province according to its
writing, and people and people according to its tongue, and
unto the Jews according to their writing, and according to
their tongue.
8:10 And he writeth in the name of the king Ahasuerus, and
sealeth with the signet of the king, and sendeth letters by the
hand of the runners with horses, riders of the dromedary, the
mules, the young mares,
8:11 that the king hath given to the Jews who [are] in every
city and city, to be assembled, and to stand for their life, to
cut off, to slay, and to destroy the whole force of the people
and province who are distressing them, infants and women, and
their spoil to seize.
8:12 In one day, in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, on
the thirteenth of the twelfth month -- it [is] the month of
Adar --
8:13 a copy of the writing to be made law in every province and
province is revealed to all the peoples, and for the Jews being
ready at this day to be avenged of their enemies.
8:14 The runners, riding on the dromedary, [and] the mules, have
gone out, hastened and pressed by the word of the king, and the
law hath been given in Shushan the palace.
8:15 And Mordecai went out from before the king, in royal
clothing of blue and white, and a great crown of gold, and a
garment of fine linen and purple, and the city of Shushan hath
rejoiced and been glad;
8:16 to the Jews hath been light, and gladness, and joy, and
honour,
8:17 and in every province and province, and in every city and
city, the place where the word of the king, even his law, is
coming, gladness and joy [are] to the Jews, a banquet, and a
good day; and many of the peoples of the land are becoming
Jews, for a fear of the Jews hath fallen upon them.
9:1 And in the twelfth month -- it [is] the month of Adar -- on
the thirteenth day of it, in which the word of the king, even
his law, hath come to be done, in the day that the enemies of
the Jews had hoped to rule over them, and it is turned that the
Jews rule over those hating them --
9:2 the Jews have been assembled in their cities, in all
provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to put forth a hand on those
seeking their evil, and no man hath stood in their presence,
for their fear hath fallen on all the peoples.
9:3 And all heads of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the
governors, and those doing the work that the king hath, are
lifting up the Jews, for a fear of Mordecai hath fallen upon
them;
9:4 for great [is] Mordecai in the house of the king, and his
fame is going into all the provinces, for the man Mordecai is
going on and becoming great.
9:5 And the Jews smite among all their enemies -- a smiting of
the sword, and slaughter, and destruction -- and do with those
hating them according to their pleasure,
9:6 and in Shushan the palace have the Jews slain and destroyed
five hundred men;
9:7 and Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,
9:8 and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
9:9 and Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha,
9:10 ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, adversary of the Jews,
they have slain, and on the prey they have not put forth their
hand.
9:11 On that day hath come the number of the slain in Shushan
the palace before the king,
9:12 and the king saith to Esther the queen, `In Shushan the
palace have the Jews slain and destroyed five hundred men, and
the ten sons of Haman; in the rest of the provinces of the king
what have they done? and what [is] thy petition? and it is
given to thee; and what thy request again? and it is done.'
9:13 And Esther saith, `If to the king [it be] good, let it be
given also to-morrow, to the Jews who [are] in Shushan, to do
according to the law of to-day; and the ten sons of Haman they
hang on the tree.'
9:14 And the king saith -- `to be done so;' and a law is given
in Shushan, and the ten sons of Haman they have hanged.
9:15 And the Jews who [are] in Shushan are assembled also on the
fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and they slay in Shushan
three hundred men, and on the prey they have not put forth
their hand.
9:16 And the rest of the Jews, who [are] in the provinces of the
king, have been assembled, even to stand for their life, and to
rest from their enemies, and to slay among those hating them
five and seventy thousand, and on the prey they have not put
forth their hand;
9:17 on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, even to rest on
the fourteenth of it, and to make it a day of banquet and of
joy.
9:18 And the Jews who [are] in Shushan have been assembled, on
the thirteenth day of it, and on the fourteenth of it, even to
rest on the fifteenth of it, and to make it a day of banquet
and of joy.
9:19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, who are dwelling in
cities of the villages, are making the fourteenth day of the
month of Adar -- joy and banquet, and a good day, and of sending
portions one to another.
9:20 And Mordecai writeth these things, and sendeth letters unto
all the Jews who [are] in all provinces of the king Ahasuerus,
who are near and who are far off,
9:21 to establish on them, to be keeping the fourteenth day of
the month of Adar, and the fifteenth day of it, in every year
and year,
9:22 as days on which the Jews have rested from their enemies,
and the month that hath been turned to them from sorrow to joy,
and from mourning to a good day, to make them days of banquet
and of joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts
to the needy.
9:23 And the Jews have received that which they had begun to do,
and that which Mordecai hath written unto them,
9:24 because Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, adversary of
all the Jews, had devised concerning the Jews to destroy them,
and had caused to fall Pur -- that [is] the lot -- to crush
them and to destroy them;
9:25 and in her coming in before the king, he said with the
letter, `Let his evil device that he devised against the Jews
turn back upon his own head,' and they have hanged him and his
sons on the tree,
9:26 therefore they have called these days Purim -- by the name
of the lot -- therefore, because of all the words of this
letter, and what they have seen concerning this, and what hath
come unto them,
9:27 the Jews have established and received upon them, and upon
their seed, and upon all those joined unto them, and it doth
not pass away, to be keeping these two days according to their
writing, and according to their season, in every year and year;
9:28 and these days are remembered and kept in every generation
and generation, family and family, province and province, and
city and city, and these days of Purim do not pass away from
the midst of the Jews, and their memorial is not ended from
their seed.
9:29 And Esther the queen, daughter of Abihail, writeth, and
Mordecai the Jew, with all might, to establish this second
letter of Purim,
9:30 and he sendeth letters unto all the Jews, unto the seven
and twenty and a hundred provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus
-- words of peace and truth --
9:31 to establish these days of Purim, in their seasons, as
Mordecai the Jew hath established on them, and Esther the
queen, and as they had established on themselves, and on their
seed -- matters of the fastings, and of their cry.
9:32 And a saying of Esther hath established these matters of
Purim, and it is written in the Book.
10:1 And the king Ahasuerus setteth a tribute on the land and
the isles of the sea;
10:2 and all the work of his strength, and his might, and the
explanation of the greatness of Mordecai with which the king
made him great, are they not written on the book of the
Chronicles of Media and Persia?
10:3 For Mordecai the Jew [is] second to king Ahasuerus, and a
great man of the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his
brethren, seeking good for his people, and speaking peace to
all his seed.