¹After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.

¹Po teh dogodbah, ko se je pomiril srd kralja Ahasvera, se je spomnil Vaste in kar je bila storila in kar je bilo zanjo določeno.

²Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:

²Tedaj mu reko hlapci kraljevi, ki so mu stregli: Naj se kralju poiščejo mladenke, device, lepega obraza;

³And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them:

³in kralj naj postavi pooblaščence v vseh pokrajinah kraljevine svoje, da naj zbero vse lepe mladenke, device, v grad Susan v žensko hišo pod roko Hegaja, kraljevega komornika, varuha žen, in naj se jim dado potrebščine za očiščevanje;

⁴And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.

⁴in katera devica se bo priljubila kralju, ta bodi kraljica namesto Vaste. Ta nasvet se je zdel dober kralju, in storil je tako.

⁵Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;

⁵Bil je v gradu Susanu neki Jud, njega ime Mardohej, sin Jaira, sinu Simeja, sinu Kisa, Benjaminec,

⁶Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.

⁶ki je bil odpeljan iz Jeruzalema z jetniki, kateri so bili na tuje odgnani z Jekonijem, kraljem Judovim, ki jih je peljal v ujetništvo Nebukadnezar, kralj babilonski.

⁷And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

⁷Ta je redil Hadaso (ta je Estera), svojega strica hčer; zakaj ni imela ne očeta, ne matere. In ta mladenka je bila lepe postave in zalega obraza. In ko sta bila umrla njen oče in mati, si jo je Mardohej vzel za hčer.

⁸So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also unto the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.

⁸In tako se zgodi, ko se je razglasila beseda kraljeva in njegova zapoved in ko so veliko deklic zbrali v grad Susan pod roko Hegajevo, da vzemo tudi Estero v kraljevo hišo pod varstvo Hegaja, varuha žen.

⁹And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king's house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women.

⁹In deklica mu je ugajala in našla milost pred njim. In podvizal se je, da ji da njene potrebščine za očiščevanje in njene deleže in sedem deklet, ki so bile zanjo izbrane iz kraljeve hiše; in prestavil jo je ž njenimi deklicami v najboljši kraj ženske hiše.

¹⁰Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it.

¹⁰Estera pa ni naznanila ljudstva svojega, ne rodovine svoje, zakaj Mardohej ji je bil zapovedal, naj tega ne pove.

¹¹And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.

¹¹In Mardohej se je vsak dan izprehajal pred dvoriščem ženske hiše, da bi zvedel, ali se dobro vede Esteri in kaj se ž njo godi.

¹²Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)

¹²Ko pa je prišla vrsta posamezni deklici, da bi šla noter h kralju Ahasveru, potem ko so ji bili delali po določilu za žene dvanajst mesecev (kajti tako so se dopolnjevali dnevi njih očiščevanja, namreč šest mesecev z mirovim oljem in šest mesecev z dišavami in s čistilnimi mazili za ženske),

¹³Then thus came every maiden unto the king; whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king's house.

¹³tedaj je šla deklica h kralju; karkoli je želela, ji je bilo dano, da s tem odičena gre iz hiše ženske v hišo kraljevo.

¹⁴In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name.

¹⁴Zvečer je šla in zjutraj se je vrnila v drugo žensko hišo pod roko Saasgaza, kraljevega komornika, ki je varoval priležnice; ni šla več h kralju, razen če si jo je kralj priljubil in je bila poklicana po imenu.

¹⁵Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.

¹⁵Ko pa je prišla vrsta na Estero, hčer Abihaila, strica Mardohejevega, ki si jo je bil vzel za hčer, ni zahtevala ničesar, samo kar je rekel Hegaj, komornik kraljev, varuh žen. In Estera si je pridobila milost v očeh vseh, ki so jo gledali.

¹⁶So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

¹⁶Estera je bila torej vzeta h kralju Ahasveru, v njegovo hišo kraljevo, v desetem mesecu, ki je mesec Tebet, v sedmem letu njegovega kraljevanja.

¹⁷And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.

¹⁷In kralj je ljubil Estero mimo vseh žen, in pridobila si je naklonjenost in milost v očeh njegovih bolj nego vse device, tako da ji je bil posadil kraljičino krono na glavo in jo storil za kraljico namesto Vaste.

¹⁸Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, even Esther's feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the state of the king.

¹⁸Tedaj je kralj napravil veliko gostovanje vsem svojim knezom in hlapcem svojim, Esterine gostí; in napravil je praznovanje po pokrajinah in delil darove s kraljevo darežljivostjo.

¹⁹And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai sat in the king's gate.

¹⁹In ko so v drugič zbirali device, je sedel Mardohej med kraljevimi vrati.

²⁰Esther had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him.

²⁰Estera pa še ni naznanila rodovine svoje, ne ljudstva svojega, kakor ji je bil zapovedal Mardohej; kajti Estera se je ravnala po povelju Mardohejevem, kakor ko je bila v njegovi odgoji.

²¹In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hands on the king Ahasuerus.

²¹V tistih dneh, ko je Mardohej sedel med kraljevimi vrati, sta se ujezila dva kraljeva komornika, Bigtan in Teres, iz tistih, ki so čuvali vrata, in sta mislila položiti roke na kralja Ahasvera.

²²And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told it unto Esther the queen; and Esther certified the king thereof in Mordecai's name.

²²To je zvedel Mardohej in povedal kraljici Esteri, Estera pa je naznanila kralju v imenu Mardohejevem.In ko se je stvar preiskala in dokazala, so oba obesili na drevje, in zapisano je bilo v knjigo letopisov pred kraljem.

²³And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king.

²³In ko se je stvar preiskala in dokazala, so oba obesili na drevje, in zapisano je bilo v knjigo letopisov pred kraljem.