¹After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.

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.

²All the king’s servants who were in the king’s gate bowed down, and paid homage to Haman; for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai didn’t bow down or pay him homage.

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.

³Then the king’s servants, who were in the king’s gate, said to Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the king’s commandment?”

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

⁴Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and he didn’t listen to them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s reason would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew.

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.

⁵When Haman saw that Mordecai didn’t bow down, nor pay him homage, Haman was full of wrath.

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

⁶But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai’s people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai’s people.

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.

⁷In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, and chose the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.

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.

⁸Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different than other people’s. They don’t keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not for the king’s profit to allow them to remain.

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.

⁹If it pleases the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who are in charge of the king’s business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.”

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.

¹⁰The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.

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

¹¹The king said to Haman, “The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.”

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

¹²Then the king’s scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king’s satraps, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and it was sealed with the king’s ring.

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.

¹³Letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions.

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.

¹⁴A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day.

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.

¹⁵The couriers went forth in haste by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Shushan was perplexed.

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.