Esther 9

1 Hiti chun alha Lhakao nisagi nichun lengpa dan thusoh teni chu ahung chelha paitan ahi. Hiche nikho chun, Judate kidoupiho chun amaho chu matchom jengding anagot u ahin, ahinla akaleh lang tah in asohtan ahi. Judate ho johchun agalmi houchu ajolo taovin ahi.

Therefore, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which as we have said before is called Adar, when all the Jews were prepared to be executed and their enemies were greedy for their blood, the situation turned around, and the Jews began to have the upper hand and to vindicate themselves of their adversaries.

2 Judate techu amaho khopi holeh gambih ho jousea pumkhat in dding khom un ahin nokhum hou chu asat chap jeng’un ahi. Koimachan amaho chu akimaito ngam tapouvin ahi, ajehchu mijousen amahochu aging taovin ahi.

And they gathered together throughout each city, and town, and place, so as to extend their hands against their enemies and their persecutors. And no one dared to resist them, because their great power had pierced all the peoples.

3 Gambih a milen milal ho ahin, vaihom lenpenho ahiuvin, gamvaipoh ahiuvin chuleh lengpa vaihom ho ahiuvin Mordecai akichat jeh un abonun Judate te akithopi gamtaove.

For even the judges of the provinces, and the rulers, and the procurators, and everyone of dignity, who presided over every place and work, extolled the Jews for fear of Mordecai.

4 Ajehchu lengpa khopia chun Mordecai chu sangtah'a atunlet ahitan, Gambih jousea jong aminthang cheh cheh jengin chuleh athahat cheh cheh jeng tan ahi.

For they knew him to be the leader of the palace and to have much power. Likewise, the fame of his name increased daily and flew everywhere through word of mouth.

5 Hijeh chun Judate chu anikho kitep nikhon agal miteu chu chemjam in asat chap jengun ahi. Amahon agal miteu athat’un asumang gamji taovin amaho hin vetdaho jouse chu anop nop in aboljeng jiuvin ahi.

And so the Jews struck their enemies like a great plague and killed them, repaying according to what they had prepared to do to them,

6 Susa khopi sung seh seh a jong Judate ten mi ja-nga athat un ahi.

so much so that even in Susa they executed five hundred men, besides the ten sons of Haman the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews, and their names are these:

7 Amahon Parshandatha, Dalphon leh Aspatha athatnun,

Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha

8 Chuleh Poratha, Adalia le Aridatha athatnun,

and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,

9 Parmashta toh Arisai, Aridai le Vaizatha athatnun,

and Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vaizatha.

10 Judate galmi, Hammedatha chapa Haman chate som jong chu athatdoh taovin ahi. Ahinla athil alo hou achom pou’ve.

When they had slain them, they were unwilling to touch the spoils of their belongings.

11 Hiche nikho tah chun Susa khopia athajat nuchu lengpa kom’a ahetsah taovin,

And immediately the number of those who had been killed in Susa was reported to the king.

12 Hiche jouhin lengpan lengnu Esther akouvin ajah a, “Judate ten hiche Susa khopi seh seh a jong mi 500 athat un chule Haman chate som jong athat taove. Amahon hilaitah a bon chujat atha uleh gambih dangho a ijat athat tadiuvem? Tuahi ipi nadeibe nahlai ham? Nakibolpeh ding ahi, seijin ipi thumbe ding nanei nah lai’em? Nathum chan chu kibolpeh nalai ding ahi,” ati.

He said to the queen, “In the city of Susa, the Jews have executed five hundred men, and also the ten sons of Haman. How many executions do you think that they have carried out in all the provinces? What more do you ask, and what do you wish, so that I may order it to be done?”

13 Esther in adonbut in, “Lengpa nalung lhaina ahiding leh Judate techu Susa khopia tunia abol tobang un jing jongle bolsah kit’in lang chuleh Haman chate 10 chu mol lhon chunga kikhai sanghen,” ati.

And she answered, “If it pleases the king, may power be granted to the Jews, so as to do tomorrow in Susa just as they have done today, and that the ten sons of Haman may be hung up the gallows.”

14 Hiti chun lengpan anoppeh tan Susa khopi sunga hiche dan chu akiphong doh in chuleh Haman chate thilong o mho chu mol-lhon chunga chun akhaisang taove.

And the king instructed that it should be so done. And immediately the edict was hung up in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hung up.

15 Hichun Susa khopi a Judate hochu pumkhat’in dding khom’un alha Lhakao ni get nin mi jathum athat be kitnun athillu vang achom pouve.

On the fourteenth day of the month Adar, the Jews gathered themselves together, and they executed in Susa three hundred men, but they did not seize their belongings from them.

16 Hiti chun lengpa gamkai jousea Judate chu amaho kihuhna dingin dding khom un ahi. Avetda’uva pang mihem sang som sagi le sang nga athat gam’un, agalmi teuva kon in a-ongthol taove. Ahinla amahon athil le lo imacha akichom pouve.

Moreover, throughout all the provinces which were subject to the king’s dominion, the Jews made a stand for their lives, and they executed their enemies and their persecutors, so much so that the number of those who were killed amounted to seventy-five thousand, and yet no one touched any of their belongings.

17 Hiche thilsoh ho chu Adar lha nisomle nithum nia thilsoh ahi, ajing nikho nimsom le nili nin akicholdo uvin agaljo nao chu kipahtah in golvah abollun alopna aneiyun ahi.

Now the thirteenth day of the month Adar was the first day with all of the executions, and on the fourteenth day they ceased the killing. This day they established to be sacred, so that in all times hereafter they would be free for feasting, joyfulness, and celebration.

18 Susa a Judate hon agalmite nisom le thum, nisom le nili geiya mi athauva chule nisom le ni nga ni akicholdo un kipana golvah anabollun ahi.

But, as for those who were carrying out the killings in the city of Susa, they turned to killing on the thirteenth and fourteenth day of the same month. But on the fifteenth day they ceased to attack. And for that reason they established that day as sacred, with feasting and with gladness.

19 Hijeh chun, tuni changei’in thinglhanga um Judate kho gamla a umhon hiche nikholeh, phalbi kichai kon lamleh kumlhun golvah abollun akipah khomun nehle chah thilpeh ho akithot to jiuvin ahi.

But in truth, those Jews who were staying in unwalled towns and villages, appointed the fourteenth day of the month Adar for celebration and gladness, so as to rejoice on that day and send one another portions of their feasts and their meals.

20 Mordecai in hiche thilsoh hohi ajih lut’in Xerxes gamsung jousea anai ahin agamla a um ahin Judate hohi lekha anathot jin ahi.

And so Mordecai wrote down all these things and sent them, composed in letters, to the Jews who were staying in all the king’s provinces, as much to those in nearby places as to those far away,

21 Hiche nini sung hi kumseh a golvah abolji diuvin ana sei peh tan ahi.

so that they would accept the fourteenth and fifteenth day of the month Adar for holy days, and always, at the return of the year, would celebrate them with sacred esteem.

22 Ama hiche nikho sunga hi kipana golvah bolding leh nehle chah kipehto a, gentheite manbeiya pehding in ana seipeh in ahi. Hiche hin Judate agalmi teuva konna kipana amunao, alunggim naova konna thanopna amunao ageldoh jing nadiu ahi.

For on those days, the Jews vindicated themselves of their enemies, and their mourning and sorrow were turned into mirth and joy, so that these would be days of feasting and gladness, in which they would send one another portions of their feasts, and would grant gifts to the poor.

23 Hiti chun Judaten Mordecai thilgon hohi anop peh un, hiche hi kumseh in achepi tauvin ahi.

And the Jews accepted as a solemn ritual all the things which they had begun to do at that time, which Mordecai had commanded with letters to be done.

24 Judate galmi Agagi mi Hammedatha chapa Haman chun Judate tehi suhmang helna dinga nikhokhat lhendohna dinga vangvetna ananei ahi. (Hiche avangvetna chu Purim akiti)

For Haman, the son of Hammedatha of Agag lineage, the enemy and adversary of the Jews, had devised evil against them, to kill them and to destroy them. And he had cast Pur, which in our language means the lot.

25 Ahinlah lengnu Estherhi lengpa anga ahunglut phat in, aman dan chomkhat ahin sem’in hichun Haman tohgon phaloutah chu amachunga achuhlo tan ahi. Haman le achate chu mol lhon hemjet chunga akhailih ataove.

And after this, Esther had entered before the king, begging him that his efforts might be made ineffective by the king’s letters, and that the evil he intended against the Jews might return upon his own head. Finally, both he and his sons were fastened to a cross.

26 Hijeh’a chu hiche golnop nahi Purim kiti ahi, ajehchu hiche hi gollui paova vangvetna ktina ahi. Amaho tah in anathoh khahsao ahijeh leh Mordecai in anajihlut ahijeh'in ahin chepi taove.

And so, from that time, these days are called Purim, that is, of the lots, because Pur, that is, the lot, was cast into the urn. And all things that had been carried out are contained in the volume of this epistle, that is, of this book.

27 Gamjousea Judate ten hiche chon nahi chepi dingin anom’un chuleh achilhahte jousen jong ajui diuvin ana kilol’un ahi. Amahon hiche nikho teni hi kumseh leh akitepna nikho ahi alopna neijing dingin ana phongdoh un ahi.

And whatever they suffered, and whatever was altered afterwards, the Jews received for themselves and their offspring and for all who were willing to be joined to their religion, so that none would be permitted to transgress the solemnity of these two days, to which the writing testifies, and which certain times require, as the years continually succeed one another.

28 Hiche nikho ho chu lenggam sunga khopi hole gambih ho jousea insung jousen akhang akhanga ageldoh jinguva anit jing diu ahi. Hiche Purim golvah ankong hi Judate lah a itih hijongleh mangthah louva anit jing ding chuleh ipi thil anasoh ham tihi akhang akhanga mansah louhel ding ahi.

These are the days which no one ever will erase into oblivion, and which every province in the whole world, throughout each generation, shall celebrate. Neither is there any city wherein the days of Purim, that is, of lots, may not be observed by the Jews, and by their posterity, which has been obligated to these ceremonies.

29 Abihail chanu lengnu Esther le Judate mi Mordecai in lekha khat anajih lhonin, masangjep a Mordecai in ana sutsa Purim kiman di thudol se se chu, lengnun thanei tah namdetna anei tan ahi.

And Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, also wrote a second letter, so that with all zealousness this day would be confirmed as customary for future generations.

30 Hiche lekha chu Judate jouse anathot un chule Xerxes lenggam a gambih jakhat le somni le sagi sungah ana thot soh hel un ahi. Lekhathot a chu Judate lah a chamna le lungmon na leng hen akitin ahi.

And they sent to all the Jews, who had been stirred up in the one hundred twenty-seven provinces of king Artaxerxes, that they should have peace and receive truth,

31 Judate mi Mordecai leh lengnu Esther in dan a anatundoh lhon Purim golvah hi anikho kipeh dungjuija kumseh a nit dinga ana kiphutdoh ahi. (Mipite hin amaho dingleh achilhah ho diuva anngol naleh lunghemna anathoh khom banguva hiche Purim golvah jonghi ana tundoh u ahi).

and observe the days of lots, and celebrate them with joy at their proper time, just as Mordecai and Esther had established. And they accepted these to be observed by themselves and by their offspring: fasting, and crying out, and the days of lots,

32 Hitia hi Purim chon nahi Esther thupeh in namdetna anei hetjing dingin lekhajol khat’a kijih lut tai.

and all things which are contained in the history of this book, which is called Esther.