¹Zvino pazuva iro mambo Ahashivheroshi akapa vahosi Esiteri imba yaHamani, iye muvengi wavaJudha. Modhekai akasvika pamberi pamambo, nekuti Esiteri akanga audza mambo kuti chinyi chake.

¹On that day hath the king Ahasuerus given to Esther the queen the house of Haman, adversary of the Jews, and Mordecai hath come in before the king, for Esther hath declared what he [is] to her,

²Mambo akabvisa chindori chake chaakanga atora panaHamani, akachipa Modhekai. Esiteri ndokuita Modhekai mutariri weimba yaHamani.

²and the king turneth aside his signet, that he hath caused to pass away from Haman, and giveth it to Mordecai, and Esther setteth Mordecai over the house of Haman.

³Esiteri akataurazve pamberi pamambo, akazviwisira pasi pamakumbo ake, akachema kwaari nemisodzi kuti aparadze zano rakaipa raHamani muAgagi, nezano rake raakanga afunga pamusoro pavaJudha.

³And Esther addeth, and speaketh before the king, and falleth before his feet, and weepeth, and maketh supplication to him, to cause the evil of Haman the Agagite to pass away, and his device that he had devised against the Jews;

⁴Mambo akatambanudzira Esiteri tsvimbo yendarama. Ipapo Esiteri akasimuka akamira pamberi pamambo

⁴and the king holdeth out to Esther the golden sceptre, and Esther riseth, and standeth before the king,

⁵Zvino akati kana mambo achifara nazvo, kana ndanzwirwa tsitsi naye, kana mambo achiti zvakanaka, ini ndakamufadza hangu, tsamba ngadzinyorwe dzichashandura tsamba dzaiva nezano raHamani mwanakomana waHamedhata, muAgagi, dzaakanyora kuparadza vaJudha vari pamativi ose enyika yamambo;

⁵and saith, `If to the king [it be] good, and if I have found grace before him, and the thing hath been right before the king, and I [be] good in his eyes, let it be written to bring back the letters — a device of Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite — that he wrote to destroy the Jews who [are] in all provinces of the king,

⁶nekuti ini ndingagona seiko kuona zvakaipa zvichaitirwa vanhu vangu? Ndingagona seiko kuona kuparadzwa kwavanhu vangu!

⁶for how do I endure when I have looked on the evil that doth find my people? and how do I endure when I have looked on the destruction of my kindred?`

⁷Ipapo mambo Ahashivheroshi akati kuna vahosi Esiteri naModhekai muJudha, Tarirai ndapa Esiteri imba yaHamani, asi iye vakamusungirira pamatanda, nekuti akada kuuraya vaJudha.

⁷And the king Ahasuerus saith to Esther the queen, and to Mordecai the Jew, `Lo, the house of Haman I have given to Esther, and him they have hanged on the tree, because that he put forth his hand on the Jews,

⁸Zvino imiwo chinyorerai vaJudha, sezvamunoda, nezita ramambo, muzvisimbise nechindori chamambo; nekuti rugwaro rwakanyorwa nezita ramambo, rukasimbiswa nechindori chamambo, harungashandurwi nomunhu.

⁸and ye, write ye for the Jews, as [it is] good in your eyes, in the name of the king, and seal with the signet of the king — for the writing that is written in the name of the king, and sealed with the signet of the king, there is none to turn back.`

⁹Zvino vanyori vamambo vakadamwa panguva iyo, pamwedzi wechitatu, uri mwedzi weShivhani, pazuva ramakumi maviri namatatu; vakanyora zvose Modhekai zvaakaraira vaJudha, namachinda makuru, navabati, namachinda amativi enyika, kubva paIndia kusvikira paItiopia, mativi enyika ane zana namakumi maviri namanomwe, rutivi rumwe norumwe rwenyika nomunyorero warwo, uye rudzi rumwe norume norurimi rwarwo, navaJudha nomunyorero wavo uye norurimi rwavo.

⁹And the scribes of the king are called, at that time, in the third month — it [is] the month of Sivan — in the three and twentieth of it, and it is written, according to all that Mordecai hath commanded, unto the Jews, and unto the lieutenants, and the governors, and the heads of the provinces, that [are] from Hodu even unto Cush, seven and twenty and a hundred provinces — province and province according to its writing, and people and people according to its tongue, and unto the Jews according to their writing, and according to their tongue.

¹⁰Akanyora nezita ramambo Ahashivheroshi, akadzisimbisa nechindori chamambo, ndokutuma nhume dzinomhanya dzakatasva mabhiza, dzakatasva mabhiza aimhanyisa kwazvo pabasa ramambo, akaberekwa pazvipfuwo zvamambo.

¹⁰And he writeth in the name of the king Ahasuerus, and sealeth with the signet of the king, and sendeth letters by the hand of the runners with horses, riders of the dromedary, the mules, the young mares,

¹¹Mambo akatendera patsamba idzo vaJudha paguta rimwe nerimwe kuungana, nokurwira upenyu hwavo, vaparadze, vauraye, vapedze simba rose ravanhu neramativi enyika kana vaida kuvavamba ivo navana vavo navakadzi vavo, uye vatore nhumbi dzavo vadzipambare,

¹¹that the king hath given to the Jews who [are] in every city and city, to be assembled, and to stand for their life, to cut off, to slay, and to destroy the whole force of the people and province who are distressing them, infants and women, and their spoil to seize.

¹²zvose zviitwe pazuva rimwe pamativi ose enyika yose yamambo Ahashivheroshi, iro zuva regumi namatatu romwedzi wegumi nemiviri, uri mwedzi weAdhari.

¹²In one day, in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth of the twelfth month — it [is] the month of Adar —

¹³Mashoko orugwaro urwu akatumwa kuvanhu vose, kuti chirevo chiparidzwe pamativi ose enyika kuti vaJudha vazvigadzirire zuva iro vatsive vavengi vavo.

¹³a copy of the writing to be made law in every province and province is revealed to all the peoples, and for the Jews being ready at this day to be avenged of their enemies.

¹⁴Naizvozvo nhume, dzakatasva mabhiza anomhanyisa kwazvo pabasa ramambo, dzakaenda dzichichimbidzikiswa nokukurudzirwa nomurayiro wamambo; chirevo icho chikatemwa paShushani nhare yamambo.

¹⁴The runners, riding on the dromedary, [and] the mules, have gone out, hastened and pressed by the word of the king, and the law hath been given in Shushan the palace.

¹⁵Modhekai akabuda pamberi pamambo, akafuka nguvo dzoushe, nhema nechena, akadzika korona huru yendarama, ane nguvo yomucheka wakaisvonaka-naka mushava; guta reShushani rikapururudza, rakafara.

¹⁵And Mordecai went out from before the king, in royal clothing of blue and white, and a great crown of gold, and a garment of fine linen and purple, and the city of Shushan hath rejoiced and been glad;

¹⁶VaJudha vakava nechiedza, nomufaro, nokufara kukuru, nokukudzwa.

¹⁶to the Jews hath been light, and gladness, and joy, and honour,

¹⁷Zvino parutivi rumwe norumwe rwenyika, napaguta rimwe nerimwe, pose pakasvika murayiro wamambo nechirevo chake, vaJudha vakafara nomufaro mukuru, vakaita mutambo nezuva romufaro. Vanhu vazhinji pakati pendudzi dzavanhu dzenyika vakazova vaJudha; nekuti vakanga vachitya vaJudha kwazvo.

¹⁷and in every province and province, and in every city and city, the place where the word of the king, even his law, is coming, gladness and joy [are] to the Jews, a banquet, and a good day; and many of the peoples of the land are becoming Jews, for a fear of the Jews hath fallen upon them.