Esther 8

1 in/on/with day [the] he/she/it to give: give [the] king Ahasuerus to/for Esther [the] queen [obj] house: home Haman to vex ([the] Jew *Q(k)*) and Mordecai to come (in): come to/for face: before [the] king for to tell Esther what? he/she/it to/for her

That same day King Xerxes awarded Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai entered the king’s presence because Esther had revealed his relation to her.

2 and to turn aside: remove [the] king [obj] ring his which to pass: bring from Haman and to give: give her to/for Mordecai and to set: appoint Esther [obj] Mordecai upon house: home Haman

The king removed the signet ring he had recovered from Haman and presented it to Mordecai. And Esther appointed Mordecai over the estate of Haman.

3 and to add: again Esther and to speak: speak to/for face: before [the] king and to fall: fall to/for face: before foot his and to weep and be gracious to/for him to/for to pass: bring [obj] distress: evil Haman [the] Agagite and [obj] plot his which to devise: design upon [the] Jew

And once again, Esther addressed the king. She fell at his feet weeping and begged him to revoke the evil scheme of Haman the Agagite, which he had devised against the Jews.

4 and to extend [the] king to/for Esther [obj] scepter [the] gold and to arise: rise Esther and to stand: stand to/for face: before [the] king

The king extended the gold scepter toward Esther, and she arose and stood before the king.

5 and to say if upon [the] king pleasant and if to find favor to/for face: before his and to succeed [the] word: thing to/for face: before [the] king and pleasant I in/on/with eye: appearance his to write to/for to return: turn back [obj] [the] scroll: document plot Haman son: child Hammedatha [the] Agagite which to write to/for to perish [obj] [the] Jew which in/on/with all province [the] king

“If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.

6 for how? be able and to see: see in/on/with distress: harm which to find [obj] people my and how? be able and to see: see in/on/with destruction relatives my

For how could I bear to see the disaster that would befall my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”

7 and to say [the] king Ahasuerus to/for Esther [the] queen and to/for Mordecai [the] Jew behold house: household Haman to give: give to/for Esther and [obj] him to hang upon [the] tree: stake upon which to send: reach hand his (in/on/with Jew *Q(k)*)

So King Xerxes said to Esther the Queen and Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Haman’s estate to Esther, and he was hanged on the gallows because he attacked the Jews.

8 and you(m. p.) to write upon [the] Jew like/as pleasant in/on/with eye: appearance your in/on/with name [the] king and to seal in/on/with ring [the] king for writing which to write in/on/with name [the] king and to seal in/on/with ring [the] king nothing to/for to return: turn back

Now you may write in the king’s name as you please regarding the Jews, and seal it with the royal signet ring. For a decree that is written in the name of the king and sealed with the royal signet ring cannot be revoked.”

9 and to call: call to scribe [the] king in/on/with time [the] he/she/it in/on/with month [the] third he/she/it month Sivan in/on/with three and twenty in/on/with him and to write like/as all which to command Mordecai to(wards) [the] Jew and to(wards) [the] satrap and [the] governor and ruler [the] province which from India and till Cush seven and twenty and hundred province province and province like/as writing her and people and people like/as tongue: language his and to(wards) [the] Jew like/as writing their and like/as tongue: language their

At once the royal scribes were summoned, and on the twenty-third day of the third month (the month of Sivan ), they recorded all of Mordecai’s orders to the Jews and to the satraps, governors, and princes of the 127 provinces from India to Cush —writing to each province in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.

10 and to write in/on/with name [the] king Ahasuerus and to seal in/on/with ring [the] king and to send: depart scroll: document in/on/with hand: by [the] to run: run in/on/with horse to ride [the] steed [the] steed son: young animal [the] mare

Mordecai wrote in the name of King Xerxes and sealed it with the royal signet ring. He sent the documents by mounted couriers riding on swift horses bred from the royal mares.

11 which to give: allow [the] king to/for Jew which in/on/with all city and city to/for to gather and to/for to stand: stand upon soul: life their to/for to destroy and to/for to kill and to/for to perish [obj] all strength: soldiers people and province [the] to provoke [obj] them child and woman and spoil their to/for to plunder

By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile to them, including women and children, and to plunder their possessions.

12 in/on/with day one in/on/with all province [the] king Ahasuerus in/on/with three ten to/for month two ten he/she/it month Adar

The single day appointed throughout all the provinces of King Xerxes was the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar.

13 copy [the] writing to/for to give: give law in/on/with all province and province to reveal: proclaim to/for all [the] people and to/for to be ([the] Jew *Q(k)*) (ready *Q(K)*) to/for day [the] this to/for to avenge from enemy their

A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued in every province and published to all the people, so that the Jews would be ready on that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.

14 [the] to run: run to ride [the] steed [the] steed to come out: come to dismay and to hasten in/on/with word [the] king and [the] law to give: give in/on/with Susa [the] palace

The couriers rode out in haste on their royal horses, pressed on by the command of the king. And the edict was also issued in the citadel of Susa.

15 and Mordecai to come out: come from to/for face [the] king in/on/with clothing royalty blue and white and crown gold great: large and robe fine linen and purple and [the] city Susa to cry out and to rejoice

Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal garments of blue and white, with a large gold crown and a purple robe of fine linen. And the city of Susa shouted and rejoiced.

16 to/for Jew to be light and joy and rejoicing and preciousness

For the Jews it was a time of light and gladness, of joy and honor.

17 and in/on/with all province and province and in/on/with all city and city place which word [the] king and law his to touch joy and rejoicing to/for Jew feast and day pleasant and many from people [the] land: country/planet to become a Jew for to fall: fall dread [the] Jew upon them

In every province and every city, wherever the king’s edict and decree reached, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many of the people of the land themselves became Jews, because the fear of the Jews had fallen upon them.