¹After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.

¹Po teh dogodbah je kralj Ahasver velikega storil Hamana, sina Hamedata, Agagejca, in ga je povišal ter postavil stol njegov nad vse kneze, ki so bili pri njem.

²And all the king's servants, that were in the king's gate, bowed, and reverenced Haman: for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence.

²In vsi hlapci kraljevi, ki so bili ob kraljevih vratih, so pripogibali kolena in padali na tla pred Hamanom, kajti tako je bil kralj zapovedal za njega. Ali Mardohej ni pripogibal kolen in ni padal na tla pred njim.

³Then the king's servants, which were in the king's gate, said unto Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the king's commandment?

³Tedaj reko kraljevi hlapci, ki so bili ob kraljevih vratih, Mardoheju: Zakaj prestopaš kraljevo zapoved?

⁴Now it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him, and he hearkened not unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's matters would stand: for he had told them that he was a Jew.

⁴In ko so mu tako vsak dan govorili in jih on ni slušal, naznanijo to Hamanu, da bi videli, bodo li obstale besede Mardohejeve; zakaj bil je jim povedal, da je Jud.

⁵And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath.

⁵In ko je videl Haman, da Mardohej ne pripogiba kolen in se mu ne klanja do tal, se je ves razsrdil.

⁶And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.

⁶A zdelo se mu je premalo, da se loti Mardoheja samega; zakaj oznanili so mu, katerega ljudstva je Mardohej; zato je nameraval pokončati vse Jude, ki so bili po vsej kraljevini Ahasverovi, narod Mardohejev.

⁷In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.

⁷V prvem mesecu, ki je mesec Nisan, v dvanajstem letu kralja Ahasvera, so vrgli pur, to je žreb, pred Hamanom, vrgli so ga od dne do dne, od meseca do meseca, in zadeli so dvanajsti mesec, ki je mesec Adar.

⁸And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.

⁸In Haman reče kralju Ahasveru: Neko ljudstvo živi razkropljeno in zase ločeno med ljudstvi po vseh deželah kraljestva tvojega, in njega postave so drugačne nego vseh ljudstev, in po kraljevih postavah se ne ravna; zato ni kralju v prid, če ga trpi.

⁹If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.

⁹Ako je kralju ugodno, piši, da naj ga pogube; in jaz odtehtam deset tisoč talentov srebra v roke tistim, ki oskrbujejo kraljeva opravila, da ga neso v kraljevo zakladnico.

¹⁰And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.

¹⁰Tedaj si sname kralj prstan z roke ter ga da Hamanu, sinu Hamedata, Agagejcu, nasprotniku Judov.

¹¹And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee.

¹¹In kralj reče Hamanu: Srebro bodi dano tebi, tudi tisto ljudstvo, da se ž njim stori, kar se ti dobro vidi.

¹²Then were the king's scribes called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and there was written according to all that Haman had commanded unto the king's lieutenants, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the rulers of every people of every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and sealed with the king's ring.

¹²Nato pokličejo kraljeve pisarje trinajsti dan v prvem mesecu, in napisalo se je po vsem, kakor je velel Haman, namestnikom kraljevim in oblastnikom, ki so bili nad vsako pokrajino, in knezom vsakega ljudstva, za vsako pokrajino po njeni pisavi in vsakemu ljudstvu v njegovem jeziku; v imenu kralju Ahasvera je bilo pisano in zapečateno s kraljevim prstanom.

¹³And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.

¹³In listi so bili poslani po hitrih slih v vse kraljeve pokrajine, da naj pokončajo, pomore in pogube vse Jude, mlade in stare, otročiče in žene, enega dne, na trinajsti dan dvanajstega meseca, ki je mesec Adar, in naj zaplenijo njih imetje.

¹⁴The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, that they should be ready against that day.

¹⁴In da bi se povelje izdalo v vsaki posamezni pokrajini, so objavili vsebino lista vsem ljudstvom, da naj bodo pripravljeni na ta dan.Brzi sli so hitro šli po besedi kraljevi, ko je bilo povelje izdano v Susanu v palači. Kralj in Haman pa sta sedla, da pijeta, mesto Susan pa je bilo zbegano.

¹⁵The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.

¹⁵Brzi sli so hitro šli po besedi kraljevi, ko je bilo povelje izdano v Susanu v palači. Kralj in Haman pa sta sedla, da pijeta, mesto Susan pa je bilo zbegano.