¹After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.

¹Potom po týchto udalostiach, keď sa upokojila prchlivosť kráľa Ahasvera, spomenul si na Vastu a na to, čo urobila, jako i na to, čo bolo usúdené proti nej.

²Then the king’s servants who served him said, “Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king.

²A mládenci kráľovi, ktorí mu posluhovali, riekli: Nech vyhľadajú kráľovi mladice panny krásneho vzozrenia,

³Let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the beautiful young virgins to the citadel of Susa, to the women’s house, to the custody of Hegai the king’s eunuch, keeper of the women. Let cosmetics be given them;

³a nech ustanoví kráľ úradníkov vo všetkých krajinách svojho kráľovstva, ktorí shromaždia všetky mladice panny krásneho vzozrenia na hrad Súsan do domu žien pod ruku Hégeho, komorníka kráľovho, strážcu žien, a nech sa im dá to, čo potrebujú, aby sa očistily a ozdobily.

⁴and let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” The thing pleased the king, and he did so.

⁴A mladica, ktorá sa bude ľúbiť kráľovi, nech kraľuje miesto Vasty. A slovo sa ľúbilo kráľovi a urobili tak.

⁵There was a certain Jew in the citadel of Susa, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite,

⁵A bol nejaký Žid na hrade Súsane, ktorému bolo meno Mardocheus, syn Jaira, syna Šimeiho, syna Kíšovho, človek z pokolenia Benjaminovho,

⁶who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.

⁶ktorý bol prestehovaný z Jeruzalema s prestehovanými, ktorí boli prestehovaní s Jekoniášom, judským kráľom, ktorých prestehoval Nabuchodonozor, babylonský kráľ.

⁷He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

⁷Ten vychovával Hadasu, ináče Ester, dcéru svojho strýca, lebo nemala ani otca ani matky. A deva bola krásnej postavy a peknej tvári, a po smrti jej otca a jej matky si ju vzal Mardocheus za dcéru.

⁸So it happened, when the king’s commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together to the citadel of Susa, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was taken into the king’s house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.

⁸A stalo sa, keď sa počulo slovo kráľovo a jeho nariadenie, a keď bolo shromažďované mnoho mladíc na hrad Súsan pod ruku Hégeho, že bola vzatá aj Ester do domu kráľovho pod ruku Hégeho, strážcu žien.

⁹The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness from him. He quickly gave her cosmetics and her portions of food, and the seven choice maidens who were to be given her out of the king’s house. He moved her and her maidens to the best place in the women’s house.

⁹A deva sa mu ľúbila a našla milosť pred jeho tvárou, a ponáhľal sa dať jej to, čo potrebovala na svoje očistenie a ozdobenie, a jej diely aj jej dať sedem spôsobných mladíc z domu kráľovho a premiestnil ju i jej mladice do najlepšieho miesta domu žien.

¹⁰Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives, because Mordecai had instructed her that she should not make it known.

¹⁰Ale Ester neoznámila svojho ľudu ani svojej rodiny, lebo Mardocheus jej bol prikázal, aby neoznámila.

¹¹Mordecai walked every day in front of the court of the women’s house, to find out how Esther was doing, and what would become of her.

¹¹A Mardocheus sa prechádzal každého dňa popred dvor domu žien, aby zvedel, ako sa má Ester, a čo sa s ňou deje.

¹²Each young woman’s turn came to go in to King Ahasuerus after her purification for twelve months (for so were the days of their purification accomplished, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet fragrances and with preparations for beautifying women).

¹²A keď prišiel rad na niektorú mladicu, aby vošla ku kráľovi Ahasverovi, keď sa jej už bolo dialo podľa nariadenia žien za dvanásť mesiacov (lebo tak vypĺňaly sa dni ich prípravy voňavkami, šesť mesiacov myrrhovým olejom a šesť mesiacov rôznymi voninami a ešte inými ženskými voňavými masťami),

¹³The young woman then came to the king like this: whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the women’s house to the king’s house.

¹³vtedy tak vošla mladica ku kráľovi: dalo sa jej všetko, čo žiadala, aby to išlo s ňou, a to tak z domu žien až do domu kráľovho.

¹⁴In the evening she went, and on the next day she returned into the second women’s house, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch, who kept the concubines. She came in to the king no more, unless the king delighted in her, and she was called by name.

¹⁴Večer prišla a ráno sa vrátila do druhého domu žien pod dozor Šaašegaza, komorníka kráľovho, strážcu ženín. Nevošla viacej ku kráľovi, len ak sa ľúbila kráľovi a bola povolaná podľa mena.

¹⁵Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.

¹⁵Keď potom prišiel rad na Ester, dcéru Abichaila, strýca Mardocheovho, ktorú si bol vzal za dcéru, aby vošla ku kráľovi, nežiadala si ničoho iba to, čo povedal Hége, komorník kráľov, strážca žien. A Ester našla priazeň v očiach všetkých, ktorí ju videli.

¹⁶So Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus into his royal house in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

¹⁶A tak bola Ester vzatá ku kráľovi Ahasverovi, do domu jeho kráľovstva, desiateho mesiaca, ktorý to mesiac je mesiac tébet, siedmeho roku jeho kraľovania.

¹⁷The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she obtained favor and kindness in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.

¹⁷A kráľ si zamiloval Ester nado všetky ženy, a našla priazeň a milosť pred ním nado všetky tie panny, a položil kráľovskú korunu na jej hlavu a učinil ju kráľovnou miesto Vasty.

¹⁸Then the king made a great feast for all his princes and his servants, even Esther’s feast; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces, and gave gifts according to the king’s bounty.

¹⁸K tomu učinil kráľ veľkú hostinu všetkým svojim kniežatám a svojim služobníkom, hostinu Esterinu, a pripravil krajinám úľavu od poplatkov a dal dary podľa kráľovej možnosti.

¹⁹When the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate.

¹⁹A keď shromažďovali panny po druhé, a Mardocheus sedel v bráne kráľovej,

²⁰Esther had not yet made known her relatives nor her people, as Mordecai had commanded her; for Esther obeyed Mordecai, like she did when she was brought up by him.

²⁰Ester neoznámila svojej rodiny ani svojho národa, tak ako jej prikázal Mardocheus, lebo Ester plnila rozkaz Mardocheov tak, ako keď bola u neho v opatere.

²¹In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate, two of the king’s eunuchs, Bigthan and Teresh, who were doorkeepers, were angry, and sought to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus.

²¹V tých dňoch, keď sedel Mardocheus v bráne kráľovej, rozhnevali sa Bigtán a Téreš, dvaja komorníci kráľovi zpomedzi strážcov prahu, a hľadali príležitosť vystrieť ruku na kráľa Ahasvera.

²²This thing became known to Mordecai, who informed Esther the queen; and Esther informed the king in Mordecai’s name.

²²Keď sa dozvedel o tom Mardocheus, oznámil to kráľovnej Esteri, a Ester to povedala kráľovi v mene Mardocheovom.

²³When this matter was investigated, and it was found to be so, they were both hanged on a tree; and it was written in the book of the chronicles in the king’s presence.

²³A keď bola vec vyšetrená a najdená, obesili obidvoch na šibenici. A bolo to zapísané do knihy letopisov pred kráľom.