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, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.

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

²The king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. Esther set 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.

³Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and begged him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.

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

⁴Then the king held out to Esther the golden scepter. So Esther arose, and stood 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;

⁵She said, “If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seem right to the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces.

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

⁶For how can I endure to see the evil that would come to my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?”

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

⁷Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, “See, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged on the gallows, because he laid 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.

⁸Write also to the Jews, as it pleases you, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s ring; for the writing which is written in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s ring, may not be reversed by any man.”

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.

⁹Then the king’s scribes were called at that time, in the third month Sivan, on the twenty-third day of the month; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, and to the satraps, and the governors and princes of the provinces which are from India to Ethiopia, one hundred twenty-seven provinces, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing, and in their language.

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

¹⁰He wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by courier on horseback, riding on royal horses that were bread from swift steeds.

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,

¹¹In those letters, the king granted the Jews who were in every city to gather themselves together, and to defend their life, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to plunder their possessions,

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

¹²on one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month 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 letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that the Jews should be ready for that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.

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

¹⁴So the couriers who rode on royal horses went out, hastened and pressed on by the king’s commandment. The decree was given out in the citadel of Susa.

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

¹⁵Mordecai went out of the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a robe of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa shouted and was glad.

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

¹⁶The Jews had light, gladness, joy, and honor.

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.

¹⁷In every province, and in every city, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, the Jews had gladness, joy, a feast, and a good day. Many from among the peoples of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews was fallen on them.