¹猶大人殺戮仇敵十二月，就是亞達月，十三日，王的命令和諭旨快要執行的時候，就是猶大人的仇敵盼望轄制猶大人的日子，反成了猶大人轄制恨他們的人的日子。

¹Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the month, when the king’s commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to conquer them, (but it was turned out the opposite happened, that the Jews conquered those who hated them),

²猶大人在亞哈隨魯王各省的城裡聚集起來，要下手攻擊那些想謀害他們的人；沒有人能抵擋他們，因為各族的人都懼怕他們。

²the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, to lay hands on those who wanted to harm them. No one could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen on all the people.

³各省的官長、總督、省長和辦理王事務的人，因為懼怕末底改，就都支持猶大人。

³All the princes of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and those who did the king’s business helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them.

⁴末底改在朝中的確非常尊大，他的聲譽傳遍各省；末底改這人的權力越來越大。

⁴For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai grew greater and greater.

⁵這樣，猶大人擊殺他們所有的仇敵，他們用刀盡量擊殺，隨意對待他們的仇人。

⁵The Jews struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they wanted to those who hated them.

⁶在書珊城裡，猶大人就殺滅了五百人。

⁶In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men.

⁷他們又殺了巴珊大他、達分、亞斯帕他、

⁷They killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,

⁸破拉他、亞大利雅、亞利大他、

⁸Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,

⁹帕瑪斯他、亞利賽、亞利代和瓦耶撒他，

⁹Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha,

¹⁰這十個人就是哈米大他的孫子、哈曼的兒子，猶大人的敵人；至於財物，猶大人卻沒有下手掠奪。

¹⁰the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jew’s enemy, but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.

¹¹當日在書珊城被殺的人的數目，呈到王面前。

¹¹On that day, the number of those who were slain in the citadel of Susa was brought before the king.

¹²王問王后以斯帖：“猶大人在書珊城殺滅了五百人，又殺了哈曼的十個兒子；在王其他省內，他們怎樣行呢！現在你要甚麼，我必賜給你，你還求甚麼，也必給你成全。”

¹²The king said to Esther the queen, “The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in the citadel of Susa, including the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your further request? It shall be done.”

¹³以斯帖回答：“王若是同意，求你恩准書珊的猶大人，明日也照著今日的諭旨行事，把哈曼的十個兒子掛在木架上。”

¹³Then Esther said, “If it pleases the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Shushan to do tomorrow also according to this day’s decree, and let Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”

¹⁴王就下令這樣行；諭旨傳遍書珊，人就把哈曼的十個兒子掛在木架上。

¹⁴The king commanded this to be done. A decree was given out in Shushan; and they hanged Haman’s ten sons.

¹⁵亞達月十四日，在書珊的猶大人又聚集起來，在書珊殺了三百人，卻沒有下手掠奪他們的財物。

¹⁵The Jews who were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed three hundred men in Shushan; but they didn’t lay their hand on the spoil.

¹⁶在王各省其餘的猶大人，也都聚集起來，保護自己的性命，向他們的仇敵報復，殺了恨他們的人共七萬五千；至於財物，他們卻沒有下手掠奪。

¹⁶The other Jews who were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together, defended their lives, had rest from their enemies, and killed seventy-five thousand of those who hated them; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.

¹⁷這是在亞達月十三日的事，十四日他們得享安寧，以這日為設宴歡樂的日子。

¹⁷This was done on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of that month they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

¹⁸但在書珊的猶大人在十三、十四日聚集起來殺敵，他們就在十五日休息，以這日為設宴歡樂的日子。

¹⁸But the Jews who were in Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth days of the month; and on the fifteenth day of that month, they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

¹⁹因此鄉村的猶大人，就是住在沒有城牆的村鎮的，都以亞達月十四日為歡樂飲宴的吉日，互送禮物。

¹⁹Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, a good day, and a day of sending presents of food to one another.

²⁰末底改把這些事記錄下來，並且送文書給亞哈隨魯各省遠近所有的猶大人，

²⁰Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both near and far,

²¹囑咐他們每年都要守亞達月十四、十五兩日。

²¹to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month Adar yearly,

²²以這月的兩日，為猶大人脫離仇敵，得享安寧的日子，是轉憂為喜，轉哀為樂的吉日，叫他們在這兩日飲宴歡樂，大家互贈禮物，也賙濟窮人。

²²as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy.

²³於是，猶大人承諾要守他們起初所守的，也承諾要遵守末底改寫給他們的。

²³The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them;

²⁴原本猶大人的敵人，亞甲族哈米大他的兒子哈曼曾經設謀陷害猶大人，要消滅他們；他弄卜“普珥”，就是抽籤，為要打擊和消滅猶大人。

²⁴because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast “Pur,” that is the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;

²⁵但這事呈到王面前以後，王使用文書降旨吩咐，使哈曼計謀的惡事，就是他設謀陷害猶大人的事歸到他自己的頭上，又使人把他和他的眾子掛在木架上。

²⁵but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

²⁶普珥節的來歷因此，猶大人照著“普珥”的名字，稱這兩日為普珥節；所以他們因這信上的話，又因他們所看見和所遭遇的事，

²⁶Therefore they called these days “Purim, Purim is the Hebrew plural for pur, which means lot. ” from the word “Pur.” Therefore because of all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and that which had come to them,

²⁷猶大人就立了定例，承諾他們自己和他們的後裔，以及所有與他們聯合的人，每年都要按著所寫的和指定的兩日守這節日，永不可廢止。

²⁷the Jews established, and imposed on themselves, and on their descendants, and on all those who joined themselves to them, so that it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to what was written, and according to its appointed time, every year;

²⁸使人在各省各城，家家戶戶，世世代代，都記念、遵守這兩日，使這普珥節的日子在猶大人中，永不廢止。

²⁸and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor their memory perish from their seed.

²⁹亞比孩的女兒王后以斯帖和猶大人末底改以全權寫了這第二封信，囑咐猶大人守這普珥節。

²⁹Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority to confirm this second letter of Purim.

³⁰他用和平和誠實的話，把文書送給亞哈隨魯國中一百二十七省所有的猶大人，

³⁰He sent letters to all the Jews, to the hundred twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth,

³¹勸他們按著規定的時期，照著猶大人末底改和王后以斯帖所囑咐的，也照著他們在禁食和哀求的時候為自己與後裔所承諾的，守這普珥節。

³¹to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had decreed, and as they had imposed upon themselves and their descendants, in the matter of the fastings and their cry.

³²以斯帖的命令確定了普珥節；這命令也記錄在史記上。

³²The commandment of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.