¹Zvino nomwedzi wegumi nemiviri,iwo mwedzi weAdhari, nezuva regumi namatatu, nguva yakati yaswedera yokuti murayiro wamambo nechirevo chake zviitwe, pazuva rakafunga vavengi vavaJudha kuvamukira naro; asi zvakashandurwa, nekuti vaJudha vakamukira vavengi vavo;

¹Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the month, when the king’s commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to conquer them, (but it was turned out the opposite happened, that the Jews conquered those who hated them),

²vaJudha vakaungana pamaguta avo pamativi ose enyika dzamambo Ahashivheroshi, kuti vauraye avo vakatsvaka kuvaitira zvakaipa; hakuna akanga achigona kuvadzivisa, nekuti vanhu vose vakavatya.

²the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, to lay hands on those who wanted to harm them. No one could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen on all the people.

³Machinda ose amativi enyika, namachinda makuru, navabati, vaibata basa ramambo, vakabatsira vaJudha; nekuti vakatya Modhekai.

³All the princes of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and those who did the king’s business helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them.

⁴nekuti Modhekai akanga ari mukuru paimba yamambo, nembiri yake yakanga yasvika kumativi ose enyika; nekuti murume uyu Modhekai akaramba achikura.

⁴For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai grew greater and greater.

⁵VaJudha vakaparadza vavengi vavo vose, nokuvatema neminondo, nokuvauraya, nokuvaparadza, vakaitira vavengi vavo sezvavaida.

⁵The Jews struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they wanted to those who hated them.

⁶NapaShushani nhare yamambo, vaJudha vakauraya nokuparadza varume vana mazana mashanu.

⁶In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men.

⁷Parishandata, naDharifoni, naAsipata,

⁷They killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,

⁸naPorata, naAdharia, naAridhata,

⁸Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,

⁹naParimashita, naArisai, naAridhai, naVaizata,

⁹Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha,

¹⁰ivo vanakomana vane gumi vaHamani mwanakomana waHamedhata, muvengi wavaJudha, vakavaurayawo; asi havana kupambara nhumbi dzavo.

¹⁰the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jew’s enemy, but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.

¹¹Pazuva iro kuwanda kwavakaurawa paShushani nhare yamambo kwakaverengwa kukaiswa kuna mambo.

¹¹On that day, the number of those who were slain in the citadel of Susa was brought before the king.

¹²Ipapo mambo akati kuna vahosi Esiteri, VaJudha vauraya nokuparadza paShushani nhare yamambo, varume vana mazana mashanu, navanakomana vane gumi vaHamani; ndoda zvavakaita kuna mamwe mativi enyika yamambo! Zvino chinyiko chaunonyengetera? Uchazvipiwa. Kana chinyiko chaunokumbira zvino? Zvichaitwa.

¹²The king said to Esther the queen, “The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in the citadel of Susa, including the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your further request? It shall be done.”

¹³Ipapo Esiteri akati, Kana mambo achifara nazvo, vaJudha vari paShushani ngavatenderwe kuita mangwanawo nechirevo chanhasi, navanakomana vaHamani vane gumi vasungirirwe pamatanda.

¹³Then Esther said, “If it pleases the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Shushan to do tomorrow also according to this day’s decree, and let Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”

¹⁴Ipapo mambo akaraira kuti zviitwe saizvozvo; chirevo chikatemwa paShushani, vakasungurira vanakomana vaHamani vane gumi.

¹⁴The king commanded this to be done. A decree was given out in Shushan; and they hanged Haman’s ten sons.

¹⁵VaJudha vaiva paShushani vakaunganazve nezuva regumi namana romwedzi weAdhari, vakauraya varume vana mazana matatu paShushani, asi havana kupambara nhumbi.

¹⁵The Jews who were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed three hundred men in Shushan; but they didn’t lay their hand on the spoil.

¹⁶Navamwe vaJudha vaiva pamativi enyika yamambo vakaungana, vakarwira upenyu hwavo, vakazorora pavavengi vavo, vakauraya pakati pavavengi vavo vane zviuru zvina makumi manomwe nezvishanu; asi havana kupambara nhumbi.

¹⁶The other Jews who were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together, defended their lives, had rest from their enemies, and killed seventy-five thousand of those who hated them; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.

¹⁷Izvozvo zvakaitwa nezuva regumi namatatu romwedzi weAdhari, vakazorora nezuva regumi namana, vakariita zuva romutambo neromufaro.

¹⁷This was done on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of that month they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

¹⁸Asi vaJudha vaiva paShushani vakaungana pazuva regumi namatatu napazuva regumi namana romwedzi iwoyo; nezuva regumi namashanu romwedzi uyo vakazorora, vakariita zuva romutambo neromufaro.

¹⁸But the Jews who were in Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth days of the month; and on the fifteenth day of that month, they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

¹⁹Naizvozvo vaJudha vemisha, vanogara pamisha isina kukombwa namasvingo, vanoita zuva regumi namana romwedzi weAdhari zuva romufaro neromutambo, uye zuva rakanaka, nerokutumirana zvinonaka.

¹⁹Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, a good day, and a day of sending presents of food to one another.

²⁰Zvino Modhekai akanyora zvinhu izvo, akatuma tsamba kuvaJudha vose vakanga vari pamativi ose enyika yamambo Ahashivheroshi, pedo nokure,

²⁰Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both near and far,

²¹akavaraira kuti varangarire zuva iro regumi namana romwedzi weAdhari, nezuva regumi namashanu rawo, gore rimwe nerimwe,

²¹to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month Adar yearly,

²²nekuti ndiwo mazuva vaJudha avakazorodzwa nawo pavavengi vavo, nomwedzi wavakashandurirwa nawo kuchema kwavo ukava mufaro, uye zuva rokuchema rikava zuva rakanaka; uye kuti vaaite mazuva omutambo noomufaro, nookutumirana zvinonaka uye zvipo kuvarombo.

²²as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy.

²³VaJudha vakatenda kuita nomutowo wavakatanga nawo, sezvavakanyorerwa naModhekai;

²³The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them;

²⁴nekuti Hamani mwanakomana waHamedhata muAgagi, muvengi wavaJudha vose akanga afunga zano rokuparadza vaJudha, akakanda Puri, ndiyo mijenya, kuvapedza nokuvaparadza;

²⁴because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast “Pur,” that is the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;

²⁵asi shoko iri rakati richisvika kuna mambo, iye ndokuraira netsamba kuti zano iri rake rakaipa raakafunga pamusoro pavaJudha, ridzoserwe pamusoro wake, uye kuti iye navanakomana vake vasungirirwe pamatanda.

²⁵but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

²⁶Naizvozvo vakatumidza zita ramazuva iwayo Purimi nezita rePuri. Zvino nokuda kwamashoko ose etsamba iyo, nezvavakaona pamusoro pechinhu icho, nezvavakaitirwa,

²⁶Therefore they called these days “Purim, Purim is the Hebrew plural for pur, which means lot. ” from the word “Pur.” Therefore because of all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and that which had come to them,

²⁷vaJudha vakatema chirevo vakazvisunga, kuti ivo navana vavo, navose vaizozviisa kwavari, havangatongoregi kurangarira mazuva iwayo maviri, sezvakanga zvanyorwa pamusoro pawo, uye panguva yakanga yatarwa gore rimwe nerimwe;

²⁷the Jews established, and imposed on themselves, and on their descendants, and on all those who joined themselves to them, so that it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to what was written, and according to its appointed time, every year;

²⁸uye kuti mazuva iwayo arangarirwe nokutambwa pakati porudzi rumwe norumwe, nemhuri imwe neimwe, norutivi rumwe norumwe rwenyika neguta rimwe nerimwe; uye kuti mazuva iwayo ePurimi arege kutongoregwa pakati pavaJudha, arangarirwe nokusingaperi pakati pavana vavo.

²⁸and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor their memory perish from their seed.

²⁹papo vahosi Esiteri, mukunda waAbhihairi, naModhekai muJudha, vakanyora nesimba ravo rose vakasimbisa tsamba iyo yechipiri yePurimi.

²⁹Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority to confirm this second letter of Purim.

³⁰Akatuma tsamba kuvaJudha, vose vakanga vari pamativi ane zana namakumi maviri namanomwe enyika yamambo Ahashivheroshi, akanga ana mashoko orugare nechokwadi,

³⁰He sent letters to all the Jews, to the hundred twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth,

³¹kuzosimbisa mazuva iwayo ePurimi panguva dzawo dzakatarwa, sezvavakarairwa naModhekai muJudha navahosi Esiteri, uye sezvavakanga vazvisunga ivo navana vavo pamusoro peshoko rokutsanya nerokuchema kwavo.

³¹to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had decreed, and as they had imposed upon themselves and their descendants, in the matter of the fastings and their cry.

³²Murayiro waEsiteri ukasimbisa mashoko iwayo ePurimi; zvikanyorwa mubhuku.

³²The commandment of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.