¹In zgodi se v dneh Ahasvera (to je tisti Ahasver, ki je kraljeval od Indije do Etiopije nad sto in sedemindvajsetimi pokrajinami),

¹And 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 —

²v tistih dneh, ko je sedel kralj Ahasver na kraljestva svojega prestolu, ki je bil v gradu Susanskem,

²in those days, at the sitting of the king Ahasuerus on the throne of his kingdom, that [is] in Shushan the palace,

³v tretjem letu vladanja svojega, da je napravil gostovanje vsem knezom in hlapcem svojim: vojaštvo Perzije in Medije, plemenitniki in pokrajinski poglavarji so bili zbrani pred njim,

³in 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,

⁴ko jim je dal videti bogastvo slavnega kraljestva svojega in dragoceno sijajnost veličastva svojega mnogo dni, namreč sto in osemdeset dni.

⁴in 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.

⁵In ko so se dopolnili ti dnevi, je kralj naredil gostovanje vsemu ljudstvu, ki je bilo navzočno v Susanu v gradu, velikim in malim, sedem dni, na dvorišču ob vrtu pri kraljevi palači.

⁵And 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 —

⁶Beli in škrlatnomodri bombaževi zastori so bili razobešeni z vrvicami iz bele tenčice in škrlata na srebrnih obročkih in na marmornih stebrih; počivalnice iz zlata in srebra so stale na tleh, vloženih z zelenim in belim marmorjem in z bisernjakom in s črnim marmorjem.

⁶white 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 —

⁷In piti so jim dajali iz zlatih posod, in posode so bile vselej druge in druge, in kraljevega vina je bilo obilo po kraljevi darežljivosti.

⁷and 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.

⁸In pitje je bilo po redu, ne da bi bil kdo silil; zakaj tako je kralj naročil vsem upravnikom hiše svoje, da naj vsakemu store, kakor mu je všeč.

⁸And 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.

⁹Tudi kraljica Vasti je napravila gostovanje ženam v kraljevi hiši, ki je bila kralja Ahasvera.

⁹Also Vashti the queen hath made a banquet for women, in the royal house that the king Ahasuerus hath.

¹⁰In sedmi dan, ko je bil kralj dobre volje od vina, je velel Mehumanu, Biztu, Harbonu, Bigtu, Abagtu, Zetarju in Karkasu, sedmim komornikom, ki so služili pred kraljem Ahasverom,

¹⁰On 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,

¹¹naj predenj pripeljejo kraljico Vasto s kraljevsko krono, da bi pokazal ljudstvom in knezom nje lepoto, zakaj lepa je bila.

¹¹to 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,

¹²Ali kraljica Vasti ni hotela priti po kraljevi besedi, ki so jo sporočili komorniki. Zato se kralj razsrdi in jeza se razvname v njem.

¹²and 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.

¹³Tedaj veli kralj modrijanom, ki so bili vešči časom (kajti tako se je reševala vsaka stvar kraljeva vpričo vseh, ki so znali zakon in pravo;

¹³And the king saith to wise men, knowing the times — for so [is] the word of the king before all knowing law and judgment,

¹⁴in njemu najbližji so bili Karsena, Setar, Admata, Tarsis, Meres, Marsena in Memukan, sedmero vojvod Perzije in Medije, ki so gledali obličje kraljevo in na prvem mestu sedeli v kraljestvu):

¹⁴and 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 —

¹⁵Kaj je storiti po zakonu kraljici Vasti, ker ni izvršila povelja kralja Ahasvera, ki so ga sporočili komorniki?

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?`

¹⁶In Memukan odgovori pred kraljem in vojvodami: Kraljica Vasti se ni pregrešila samo zoper kralja, ampak tudi zoper vse kneze in zoper vsa ljudstva, kar jih je v vseh pokrajinah kralja Ahasvera.

¹⁶And 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;

¹⁷Kajti to dejanje kraljice se raznese do vseh žen in bodo prezirale svoje može, ko se bo pravilo: Kralj Ahasver je velel kraljici Vasti, naj pride predenj, ali ni prišla!

¹⁷for 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;

¹⁸In še danes bodo kneginje v Perziji in Mediji, ki so slišale o kraljičinem dejanju, pravile isto vsem kraljevim knezom; odtod bode dosti zaničevanja in srda.

¹⁸yea, 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.

¹⁹Ako se zdi kralju dobro, naj izide njegovo povelje in bodi zapisano v postave Peržanov in Medov nepremenljivo: Da ne sme Vasti priti več pred kralja Ahasvera. In kralj naj da njeno kraljevo dostojanstvo drugi, ki je boljša nego ona.

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;

²⁰In ko se zasliši kraljev razglas, ki ga izda, po vsej kraljevini njegovi (kajti je velika), bodo spoštovale vse žene svoje može, od velikega do malega.

²⁰and 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.`

²¹Ta nasvet se je videl dober kralju in knezom; in kralj je storil po besedi Memukanovi:kajti poslal je liste v vse kraljeve pokrajine, v vsako pokrajino po njenem pismu in vsakemu ljudstvu po njegovem jeziku, da naj bode vsak mož v hiši svoji gospodar in govori po jeziku ljudstva svojega.

²¹And the thing is good in the eyes of the king, and of the princes, and the king doth according to the word of Memucan,

²²kajti poslal je liste v vse kraljeve pokrajine, v vsako pokrajino po njenem pismu in vsakemu ljudstvu po njegovem jeziku, da naj bode vsak mož v hiši svoji gospodar in govori po jeziku ljudstva svojega.

²²and 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.