1بعد هذه الأمور عظّم الملك احشويروش هامان بن همداثا الاجاجي ورقّاه وجعل كرسيه فوق جميع الرؤساء الذين معه.
1After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.
2فكان كل عبيد الملك الذين بباب الملك يجثون ويسجدون لهامان لانه هكذا اوصى به الملك. واما مردخاي فلم يجث ولم يسجد.
2All the king’s servants who were in the king’s gate bowed down, and paid homage to Haman; for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai didn’t bow down or pay him homage.
3فقال عبيد الملك الذين بباب الملك لمردخاي لماذا تتعدّى امر الملك.
3Then the king’s servants, who were in the king’s gate, said to Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the king’s commandment?”
4واذ كانوا يكلمونه يوما فيوما ولم يكن يسمع لهم اخبروا هامان ليروا هل يقوم كلام مردخاي لانه اخبرهم بانه يهودي.
4Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and he didn’t listen to them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s reason would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew.
5ولما رأى هامان ان مردخاي لا يجثو ولا يسجد له امتلأ هامان غضبا.
5When Haman saw that Mordecai didn’t bow down, nor pay him homage, Haman was full of wrath.
6وازدري في عينيه ان يمد يده الى مردخاي وحده لانهم اخبروه عن شعب مردخاي فطلب هامان ان يهلك جميع اليهود الذين في كل مملكة احشويروش شعب مردخاي
6But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai’s people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai’s people.
7في الشهر الاول اي شهر نيسان في السنة الثانية عشرة للملك احشويروش كانوا يلقون فورا اي قرعة امام هامان من يوم الى يوم ومن شهر الى شهر الى الثاني عشر اي شهر اذار.
7In the first month, which 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, and chose the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.
8فقال هامان للملك احشويروش انه موجود شعب ما متشتت ومتفرق بين الشعوب في كل بلاد مملكتك وسننهم مغايرة لجميع الشعوب وهم لا يعملون سنن الملك فلا يليق بالملك تركهم.
8Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different than other people’s. They don’t keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not for the king’s profit to allow them to remain.
9فاذا حسن عند الملك فليكتب ان يبادوا وانا ازن عشرة آلاف وزنة من الفضة في ايدي الذين يعملون العمل ليؤتى بها الى خزائن الملك.
9If it pleases the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who are in charge of the king’s business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.”
10فنزع الملك خاتمه من يده واعطاه لهامان بن همداثا الاجاجي عدو اليهود.
10The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.
11وقال الملك لهامان الفضة قد أعطيت لك والشعب ايضا لتفعل به ما يحسن في عينيك
11The king said to Haman, “The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.”
12فدعي كتّاب الملك في الشهر الاول في اليوم الثالث عشر منه وكتب حسب كل ما أمر به هامان الى مرازبة الملك والى ولاة بلاد فبلاد والى رؤساء شعب فشعب كل بلاد ككتابتها وكل شعب كلسانه كتب باسم الملك احشويروش وختم بخاتم الملك
12Then the king’s scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king’s satraps, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and it was sealed with the king’s ring.
13وأرسلت الكتابات بيد السعاة الى كل بلدان الملك لاهلاك وقتل وابادة جميع اليهود من الغلام الى الشيخ والاطفال والنساء في يوم واحد في الثالث عشر من الشهر الثاني عشر اي شهر اذار وان يسلبوا غنيمتهم.
13Letters were sent by couriers 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 on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions.
14صورة الكتابة المعطاة سنّة في كل البلدان أشهرت بين جميع الشعوب ليكونوا مستعدين لهذا اليوم.
14A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day.
15فخرج السعاة وأمر الملك يحثّهم وأعطي الامر في شوشن القصر. وجلس الملك وهامان للشرب واما المدينة شوشن فارتبكت
15The couriers went forth in haste by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Shushan was perplexed.