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.

¹Tisti dan je podaril kralj Ahasver kraljici Esteri hišo Hamana, nasprotnika Judov. In Mardohej je prišel pred kralja, zakaj Estera je povedala, kaj je on bil njej.

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.

²In kralj je snel svoj prstan, ki ga je bil vzel Hamanu, in ga je dal Mardoheju. Estera pa je postavila Mardoheja nad hišo Hamanovo.

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.

³In Estera je zopet govorila pred kraljem ter je padla kralju pred noge in ga plakaje prosila, naj uniči zlobnost Hamana Agagejca in njegov naklep, ki ga je nasnoval zoper Jude.

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

⁴Tedaj seže kralj proti Esteri z žezlom zlatim. In Estera vstane in stopi pred kralja

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.

⁵in reče: Ako je kralju všeč in ako sem našla milost v očeh njegovih in se stvar vidi kralju prikladna in ako sem mu mila, naj se napiše, da se prekličejo listi z naklepom Hamana, sinu Hamedata, Agagejca, ki jih je napisal, da bi pogubil Jude po vseh pokrajinah kraljevih.

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?”

⁶Ker kako bi mogla gledati nesrečo, ki zadene ljudstvo moje? in kako bi mogla videti pogubo rodovine svoje?

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.

⁷Nato reče kralj Ahasver kraljici Esteri in Mardoheju Judu: Glej, dal sem Esteri hišo Hamanovo in njega so obesili na vislice, ker je položil roko svojo na Jude.

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.”

⁸Pišita torej vidva za Jude, kakor se vama zdi prav, v kraljevem imenu in zapečatita s kraljevim prstanom; zakaj pisma, ki je pisano v kraljevem imenu in zapečateno s kraljevim prstanom, nihče ne more preklicati.

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.

⁹Tedaj so bili poklicani kraljevi pisarji tisti čas, v tretjem mesecu, ki je mesec Sivan, na triindvajseti dan; in bilo je pisano, prav kakor je velel Mardohej, Judom in namestnikom kraljevim in deželskim oblastnikom in knezom v pokrajinah, ki se raztezajo od Indije do Etiopije, stoinsedemindvajset pokrajin, vsaki pokrajini v njeni pisavi in vsakemu ljudstvu v njegovem jeziku, tudi Judom v njih pisavi in v njih jeziku.

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.

¹⁰In pisal je v imenu kralja Ahasvera in zapečatil s kraljevim prstanom in razposlal liste po brzih slih, jezdečih na gosposkih konjih, zrejenih v kraljevi kobilarni:

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,

¹¹da je kralj dovolil Judom po vseh mestih, da se zbero in branijo življenje svoje, da pokončajo in pomore in pogube vso vojno moč ljudstva in pokrajin, ki bi napadla nje, njih otročiče in žene, in da zaplenijo njih imetje

¹²on one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.

¹²enega dne po vseh pokrajinah kralja Ahasvera, namreč trinajstega dne dvanajstega meseca, ki je mesec Adar.

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.

¹³In da bi se povelje izdalo v vsaki posamezni pokrajini, se je objavila vsebina lista vsem ljudstvom, da naj bodo Judje pripravljeni na tisti dan, da se maščujejo nad sovražniki svojimi.

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.

¹⁴Brzi sli, ki so jezdili na kraljevih konjih, so odšli, podvizaje se po kraljevi zapovedi. In ukaz se je izdal na gradu Susanu.

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.

¹⁵In Mardohej je šel izpred obličja kraljevega v kraljevskem oblačilu iz modrega škrlata in belega bombaža in z velikim vencem zlatim in s plaščem iz tenčice in škrlata; in mesto Susan je ukalo in se veselilo.

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

¹⁶Judom je nastala luč in veselje, radost in čast.In v vsaki pokrajini in po vseh mestih, kamorkoli je dospelo kraljevo povelje in njegova postava, so imeli Judje veselje in radost, gostijo in praznik. In mnogi izmed ljudstev dežele so postali Judje, kajti strah pred Judi jih je prevzel.

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.

¹⁷In v vsaki pokrajini in po vseh mestih, kamorkoli je dospelo kraljevo povelje in njegova postava, so imeli Judje veselje in radost, gostijo in praznik. In mnogi izmed ljudstev dežele so postali Judje, kajti strah pred Judi jih je prevzel.