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.

¹After these things hath the king Ahasuerus exalted Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and lifteth him up, and setteth his throne above all the heads who [are] with him,

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.

²and all servants of the king, who [are] in the gate of the king, are bowing and doing obeisance to Haman, for so hath the king commanded for him; and Mordecai doth not bow nor do obeisance.

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

³And the servants of the king, who [are] in the gate of the king, say to Mordecai, `Wherefore [art] thou transgressing the command of the king?`

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.

⁴And it cometh to pass, in their speaking unto him, day by day, and he hath not hearkened unto them, that they declare [it] to Haman, to see whether the words of Mordecai do stand, for he hath declared to them that he [is] a Jew.

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

⁵And Haman seeth that Mordecai is not bowing and doing obeisance to him, and Haman is full of fury,

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.

⁶and it is contemptible in his eyes to put forth a hand on Mordecai by himself, for they have declared to him the people of Mordecai, and Haman seeketh to destroy all the Jews who [are] in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus — the people of Mordecai.

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.

⁷In the first month — it [is] the month of Nisan — in the twelfth year of the king Ahasuerus, hath one caused to fall Pur (that [is] the lot) before Haman, from day to day, and from month to month, [to] the twelfth, it [is] the month of Adar.

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.

⁸And Haman saith to the king Ahasuerus, `There is one people scattered and separated among the peoples, in all provinces of thy kingdom, and their laws [are] diverse from all people, and the laws of the king they are not doing, and for the king it is not profitable to suffer them;

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.

⁹if to the king [it be] good, let it be written to destroy them, and ten thousand talents of silver I weigh into the hands of those doing the work, to bring [it] in unto the treasuries of the king.`

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

¹⁰And the king turneth aside his signet from off his hand, and giveth it to Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, adversary of the Jews;

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

¹¹and the king saith to Haman, `The silver is given to thee, and the people, to do with it as [it is] good in thine eyes.`

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.

¹²And scribes of the king are called, on the first month, on the thirteenth day of it, and it is written according to all that Haman hath commanded, unto lieutenants of the king, and unto the governors who [are] over province and province, and unto the heads of people and people, province and province, according to its writing, and people and people according to its tongue, in the name of the king Ahasuerus it hath been written and sealed with the signet of the king,

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.

¹³and letters to be sent by the hand of the runners unto all provinces of the king, to cut off, to slay, and to destroy all the Jews, from young even unto old, infant and women, on one day, on the thirteenth of the twelfth month — it [is] the month of Adar — and their spoil to seize,

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.

¹⁴a copy of the writing to be made law in every province and province is revealed to all the peoples, to be ready for this day.

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.

¹⁵The runners have gone forth, hastened by the word of the king, and the law hath been given in Shushan the palace, and the king and Haman have sat down to drink, and the city Shushan is perplexed.