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.
The first law that the king had commanded was to be made effective on March 7th. On that day the enemies of the Jews hoped to get rid of them. But instead, on that same day the Jews defeated their enemies.
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.
Throughout the empire, the Jews gathered together in their cities to attack those who wanted to get rid of them. No one could fight against the Jews, because all the other people in the areas where the Jews lived were afraid of them, [so they did not want to help anyone who attacked the Jews].
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.
All the governors and [other] officials and important people in all the provinces helped the Jews, because they were afraid 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.
They were afraid of him because in all the provinces [they knew that] Mordecai was now the king’s most important official, [with the authority that Haman previously had]. Mordecai was becoming more famous because [the king was giving him] more and more power.
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.
[On March 7th, ] the Jews attacked and killed with their swords all of their enemies. They did whatever they wanted to do, to the people who hated them.
6 Susa khopi sung seh seh a jong Judate ten mi ja-nga athat un ahi.
[Just] in Susa alone, the capital city, they killed 500 people.
7 Amahon Parshandatha, Dalphon leh Aspatha athatnun,
Among those whom they killed were the ten sons of Haman. [Their names were] Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,
8 Chuleh Poratha, Adalia le Aridatha athatnun,
Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
9 Parmashta toh Arisai, Aridai le Vaizatha athatnun,
Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha.
10 Judate galmi, Hammedatha chapa Haman chate som jong chu athatdoh taovin ahi. Ahinla athil alo hou achom pou’ve.
Those were grandsons of Hammedatha and sons of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. The Jews killed them, but they did not take the things that belonged to the people whom they killed.
11 Hiche nikho tah chun Susa khopia athajat nuchu lengpa kom’a ahetsah taovin,
[At the end of] that day someone reported to the king the number of people whom the Jews killed in Susa.
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.
Then the king said to Queen Esther, “The Jews have killed 500 people here in Susa, including the ten sons of Haman! [So I think that] they must have killed many more people in the rest of my empire [RHQ]! [But okay], now what else do you want me to do for you. You tell me, and I will do it.”
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.
Esther replied, “If it pleases you, allow the Jews here in Susa to do again tomorrow what [you] commanded [them] to do today. And command that the bodies of Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows/poles.”
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.
So the king commanded that the Jews be permitted to kill more of their enemies the next day. After he issued [another] order in Susa, the bodies of Haman’s ten sons were hanged.
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 next day, the Jews in Susa gathered together and killed 300 more people. But [again, ] they did not take the things that belonged to the people whom they killed.
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.
That happened on March 8th. On the following day, the Jews [in Susa] rested and celebrated. In all the other provinces, the Jewish people gathered together to defend themselves, and they killed 75,000 people who hated them, but [again] they did not take the things that belonged to the people whom they killed.
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.
That occurred on March 7th, and on the following day they rested and celebrated.
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.
After the Jews in Susa gathered together [and killed their enemies] on March 7th and 8th, they rested and celebrated on March 9th.
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.
That is why [every year], on March 8th, the Jews who live in villages now celebrate [defeating their enemies]. They have feasts and give gifts [of food] to each other.
20 Mordecai in hiche thilsoh hohi ajih lut’in Xerxes gamsung jousea anai ahin agamla a um ahin Judate hohi lekha anathot jin ahi.
Mordecai wrote down all the things that had happened. Then he sent letters to the Jews who lived throughout the empire of King Xerxes.
21 Hiche nini sung hi kumseh a golvah abolji diuvin ana sei peh tan ahi.
He told them that every year they should celebrate on the 8th and 9th of March,
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.
because those were the days when the Jews got rid of their enemies. He also told them that they should celebrate on those days by feasting and giving gifts [of food] to each other and to poor people. They would remember it as the month in which they changed from being very sorrowful to being very joyful, from crying to celebrating.
23 Hiti chun Judaten Mordecai thilgon hohi anop peh un, hiche hi kumseh in achepi tauvin ahi.
So the Jews agreed to do what Mordecai wrote. They agreed to celebrate on those days [every year].
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)
They would remember how Haman, son of Hammedatha, a descendant of [King] Agag, became an enemy of all the Jews. [They would remember] how he had made an evil plan to kill the Jews, and that he had (cast lots/thrown small marked stones) to choose the day to kill [DOU] them.
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.
[They would remember] that when Esther told the king about Haman’s plan, the king arranged that the evil plan that Haman had made to kill the Jews would fail, and that he [would be killed] instead of the Jews, and that Haman and that his sons were hanged.
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.
[Because the (lot/small marked stone) that Haman threw was called] Pur, the Jews called these days Purim. And, because of everything that ([Mordecai] wrote/was written) in that letter, and because of all that happened to them,
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.
the Jews [throughout the empire] agreed to celebrate in that manner on those two days every year. They said that they would tell their descendants and those people who became Jews to be certain to celebrate this festival every year. They should celebrate just as [Mordecai] told them to do [in the letter] that he wrote.
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.
They said that they would remember and celebrate on those two days every year, in each family, in every city, and in every province. They solemnly declared that they and their descendants would never stop remembering and celebrating those days called Purim.
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.
Then Mordecai and Queen Esther, who was the daughter of Abihail, wrote a second letter about the Purim feast. Esther used the authority that she had because of being the queen to confirm that what Mordecai had written in the first letter was true.
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.
What they wrote [in the second letter] was, “We wish that all of you will be living peacefully and safely/righteously. We want you and your descendants to celebrate Purim each year on the days that we two established, and to do the things that we two told you to do.” In that letter, Queen Esther and Mordecai also gave them instructions about (fasting/abstaining from eating food) and being sorrowful. Then copies of that letter were sent to all the Jews who were living in the 127 provinces of the empire.
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).
32 Hitia hi Purim chon nahi Esther thupeh in namdetna anei hetjing dingin lekhajol khat’a kijih lut tai.
The letter that Esther wrote about the manner in which they should celebrate the Purim feast was also written in an official record.
