Esther 9
1 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.
| وَفِي ٱلشَّهْرِ ٱلثَّانِي عَشَرَ، أَيْ شَهْرِ أَذَارَ، فِي ٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلثَّالِثَ عَشَرَ مِنْهُ، حِينَ قَرُبَ كَلَامُ ٱلْمَلِكِ وَأَمْرُهُ مِنَ ٱلإِجْرَاءِ، فِي ٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلَّذِي ٱنْتَظَرَ فِيهِ أَعْدَاءُ ٱلْيَهُودِ أَنْ يَتَسَلَّطُوا عَلَيْهِمْ، فَتَحَوَّلَ ذَلِكَ، حَتَّى إِنَّ ٱلْيَهُودَ تَسَلَّطُوا عَلَى مُبْغِضِيهِمِ. | ١ |
2 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].
| ٱجْتَمَعَ ٱلْيَهُودُ فِي مُدُنِهِمْ فِي كُلِّ بِلَادِ ٱلْمَلِكِ أَحَشْوِيرُوشَ لِيَمُدُّوا أَيْدِيَهُمْ إِلَى طَالِبِي أَذِيَّتِهِمْ، فَلَمْ يَقِفْ أَحَدٌ قُدَّامَهُمْ لِأَنَّ رُعْبَهُمْ سَقَطَ عَلَى جَمِيعِ ٱلشُّعُوبِ. | ٢ |
3 All the governors and [other] officials and important people in all the provinces helped the Jews, because they were afraid of Mordecai.
| وكُلُّ رُؤَسَاءِ ٱلْبُلْدَانِ وَٱلْمَرَازِبَةُ وَٱلْوُلَاةُ وَعُمَّالُ ٱلْمَلِكِ سَاعَدُوا ٱلْيَهُودَ، لِأَنَّ رُعْبَ مُرْدَخَايَ سَقَطَ عَلَيْهِمْ. | ٣ |
4 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.
| لِأَنَّ مُرْدَخَايَ كَانَ عَظِيمًا فِي بَيْتِ ٱلْمَلِكِ، وَسَارَ خَبَرُهُ فِي كُلِّ ٱلْبُلْدَانِ، لِأَنَّ ٱلرَّجُلَ مُرْدَخَايَ كَانَ يَتَزَايَدُ عَظَمَةً. | ٤ |
5 [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.
| فَضَرَبَ ٱلْيَهُودُ جَمِيعَ أَعْدَائِهِمْ ضَرْبَةَ سَيْفٍ وَقَتْلٍ وَهَلَاكٍ، وَعَمِلُوا بِمُبْغِضِيهِمْ مَا أَرَادُوا. | ٥ |
6 [Just] in Susa alone, the capital city, they killed 500 people.
| وَقَتَلَ ٱلْيَهُودُ فِي شُوشَنَ ٱلْقَصْرِ وَأَهْلَكُوا خَمْسَ مِئَةِ رَجُلٍ. | ٦ |
7 Among those whom they killed were the ten sons of Haman. [Their names were] Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,
| وَفَرْشَنْدَاثَا وَدَلْفُونَ وَأَسْفَاثَا، | ٧ |
8 Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
| وَفُورَاثَا وَأَدَلْيَا وَأَرِيدَاثَا، | ٨ |
9 Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha.
| وَفَرْمَشْتَا وَأَرِيسَايَ وَأَرِيدَايَ وَيِزَاثَا، | ٩ |
10 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.
| عَشَرَةَ، بَنِي هَامَانَ بْنِ هَمَدَاثَا عَدُوِّ ٱلْيَهُودِ، قَتَلُوهُمْ وَلَكِنَّهُمْ لَمْ يَمُدُّوا أَيْدِيَهُمْ إِلَى ٱلنَّهْبِ. | ١٠ |
11 [At the end of] that day someone reported to the king the number of people whom the Jews killed in Susa.
| فِي ذَلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمِ أُتِيَ بِعَدَدِ ٱلْقَتْلَى فِي شُوشَنَ ٱلْقَصْرِ إِلَى بَيْنِ يَدَيِ ٱلْمَلِكِ. | ١١ |
12 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.”
| فَقَالَ ٱلْمَلِكُ لِأَسْتِيرَ ٱلْمَلِكَةِ فِي شُوشَنَ ٱلْقَصْرِ: «قَدْ قَتَلَ ٱلْيَهُودُ وَأَهْلَكُوا خَمْسَ مِئَةِ رَجُلٍ، وَبَنِي هَامَانَ ٱلْعَشَرَةَ، فَمَاذَا عَمِلُوا فِي بَاقِي بُلْدَانِ ٱلْمَلِكِ؟ فَمَا هُوَ سُؤْلُكِ فَيُعْطَى لَكِ؟ وَمَا هِيَ طِلْبَتُكِ بَعْدُ فَتُقْضَى؟». | ١٢ |
13 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.”
| فَقَالَتْ أَسْتِيرُ: «إِنْ حَسُنَ عِنْدَ ٱلْمَلِكِ فَلْيُعْطَ غَدًا أَيْضًا لِلْيَهُودِ ٱلَّذِينَ فِي شُوشَنَ أَنْ يَعْمَلُوا كَمَا فِي هَذَا ٱلْيَوْمِ، وَيَصْلِبُوا بَنِي هَامَانَ ٱلْعَشَرَةَ عَلَى ٱلْخَشَبَةِ». | ١٣ |
14 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.
| فَأَمَرَ ٱلْمَلِكُ أَنْ يَعْمَلُوا هَكَذَا، وَأُعْطِيَ ٱلْأَمْرُ فِي شُوشَنَ. فَصَلَبُوا بَنِي هَامَانَ ٱلْعَشَرَةَ. | ١٤ |
15 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.
| ثُمَّ ٱجْتَمَعَ ٱلْيَهُودُ ٱلَّذِينَ فِي شُوشَنَ، فِي ٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلرَّابِعِ عَشَرَ أَيْضًا مِنْ شَهْرِ أَذَارَ، وَقَتَلُوا فِي شُوشَنَ ثَلَاثَ مِئَةِ رَجُلٍ، وَلَكِنَّهُمْ لَمْ يَمُدُّوا أَيْدِيَهُمْ إِلَى ٱلنَّهْبِ. | ١٥ |
16 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.
| وَبَاقِي ٱلْيَهُودِ ٱلَّذِينَ فِي بُلْدَانِ ٱلْمَلِكِ ٱجْتَمَعُوا وَوَقَفُوا لِأَجْلِ أَنْفُسِهِمْ وَٱسْتَرَاحُوا مِنْ أَعْدَائِهِمْ، وَقَتَلُوا مِنْ مُبْغِضِيهِمْ خَمْسَةً وَسَبْعِينَ أَلْفًا، وَلَكِنَّهُمْ لَمْ يَمُدُّوا أَيْدِيَهُمْ إِلَى ٱلنَّهْبِ. | ١٦ |
17 That occurred on March 7th, and on the following day they rested and celebrated.
| فِي ٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلثَّالِثِ عَشَرَ مِنْ شَهْرِ أَذَارَ. وَٱسْتَرَاحُوا فِي ٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلرَّابِعِ عَشَرَ مِنْهُ وَجَعَلُوهُ يَوْمَ شُرْبٍ وَفَرَحٍ. | ١٧ |
18 After the Jews in Susa gathered together [and killed their enemies] on March 7th and 8th, they rested and celebrated on March 9th.
| وَٱلْيَهُودُ ٱلَّذِينَ فِي شُوشَنَ ٱجْتَمَعُوا فِي ٱلثَّالِثِ عَشَرَ وَٱلرَّابِعِ عَشَرَ مِنْهُ، وَٱسْتَرَاحُوا فِي ٱلْخَامِسِ عَشَرَ وَجَعَلُوهُ يَوْمَ شُرْبٍ وَفَرَحٍ. | ١٨ |
19 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.
| لِذَلِكَ يَهُودُ ٱلْأَعْرَاءِ ٱلسَّاكِنُونَ فِي مُدُنِ ٱلْأَعْرَاءِ جَعَلُوا ٱلْيَوْمَ ٱلرَّابِعَ عَشَرَ مِنْ شَهْرِ أَذَارَ لِلْفَرَحِ وَٱلشُّرْبِ، وَيَوْمًا طَيِّبًا وَلِإِرْسَالِ أَنْصِبَةٍ مِنْ كُلِّ وَاحِدٍ إِلَى صَاحِبِهِ. | ١٩ |
20 Mordecai wrote down all the things that had happened. Then he sent letters to the Jews who lived throughout the empire of King Xerxes.
| وَكَتَبَ مُرْدَخَايُ هَذِهِ ٱلْأُمُورَ وَأَرْسَلَ رَسَائِلَ إِلَى جَمِيعِ ٱلْيَهُودِ ٱلَّذِينَ فِي كُلِّ بُلْدَانِ ٱلْمَلِكِ أَحَشْوِيرُوشَ ٱلْقَرِيبِينَ وَٱلْبَعِيدِينَ، | ٢٠ |
21 He told them that every year they should celebrate on the 8th and 9th of March,
| لِيُوجِبَ عَلَيْهِمْ أَنْ يُعَيِّدُوا فِي ٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلرَّابِعِ عَشَرَ مِنْ شَهْرِ أَذَارَ، وَٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلْخَامِسِ عَشَرَ مِنْهُ فِي كُلِّ سَنَةٍ، | ٢١ |
22 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.
| حَسَبَ ٱلْأَيَّامِ ٱلَّتِي ٱسْتَرَاحَ فِيهَا ٱلْيَهُودُ مِنْ أَعْدَائِهِمْ وَٱلشَّهْرِ ٱلَّذِي تَحَوَّلَ عِنْدَهُمْ مِنْ حُزْنٍ إِلَى فَرَحٍ وَمِنْ نَوْحٍ إِلَى يَوْمٍ طَيِّبٍ، لِيَجْعَلُوهَا أَيَّامَ شُرْبٍ وَفَرَحٍ وَإِرْسَالِ أَنْصِبَةٍ مِنْ كُلِّ وَاحِدٍ إِلَى صَاحِبِهِ وَعَطَايَا لِلْفُقَرَاءِ. | ٢٢ |
23 So the Jews agreed to do what Mordecai wrote. They agreed to celebrate on those days [every year].
| فَقَبِلَ ٱلْيَهُودُ مَا ٱبْتَدَأُوا يَعْمَلُونَهُ وَمَا كَتَبَهُ مُرْدَخَايُ إِلَيْهِمْ. | ٢٣ |
24 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.
| وَلِأَنَّ هَامَانَ بْنَ هَمَدَاثَا ٱلْأَجَاجِيَّ عَدُوَّ ٱلْيَهُودِ جَمِيعًا تَفَكَّرَ عَلَى ٱلْيَهُودِ لِيُبِيدَهُمْ وَأَلْقَى فُورًا، أَيْ قُرْعَةً، لِإِفْنَائِهِمْ وَإِبَادَتِهِمْ. | ٢٤ |
25 [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.
| وَعِنْدَ دُخُولِهَا إِلَى أَمَامِ ٱلْمَلِكِ أَمَرَ بِكِتَابَةٍ أَنْ يُرَدَّ تَدْبِيرُهُ ٱلرَّدِيءُ ٱلَّذِي دَبَّرَهُ ضِدَّ ٱلْيَهُودِ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ، وَأَنْ يَصْلِبُوهُ هُوَ وَبَنِيهِ عَلَى ٱلْخَشَبَةِ. | ٢٥ |
26 [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,
| لِذَلِكَ دَعُوا تِلْكَ ٱلْأَيَّامِ «فُورِيمَ» عَلَى ٱسْمِ ٱلْفُورِ. لِذَلِكَ مِنْ أَجْلِ جَمِيعِ كَلِمَاتِ هَذِهِ ٱلرِّسَالَةِ وَمَا رَأَوْهُ مِنْ ذَلِكَ وَمَا أَصَابَهُمْ، | ٢٦ |
27 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.
| أَوْجَبَ ٱلْيَهُودُ وَقَبِلُوا عَلَى أَنْفُسِهِمْ وَعَلَى نَسْلِهِمْ وَعَلَى جَمِيعِ ٱلَّذِينَ يَلْتَصِقُونَ بِهِمْ حَتَّى لَا يَزُولَ، أَنْ يُعَيِّدُوا هَذَيْنِ ٱلْيَوْمَيْنِ حَسَبَ كِتَابَتِهِمَا وَحَسَبَ أَوْقَاتِهِمَا كُلَّ سَنَةٍ، | ٢٧ |
28 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.
| وَأَنْ يُذْكَرَ هَذَانِ ٱلْيَوْمَانِ وَيُحْفَظَا فِي دَوْرٍ فَدَوْرٍ وَعَشِيرَةٍ فَعَشِيرَةٍ وَبِلَادٍ فَبِلَادٍ وَمَدِينَةٍ فَمَدِينَةٍ. وَيَوْمَا ٱلْفُورِ هَذَانِ لَا يَزُولَانِ مِنْ وَسَطِ ٱلْيَهُودِ، وَذِكْرُهُمَا لَا يَفْنَى مِنْ نَسْلِهِمْ. | ٢٨ |
29 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.
| وَكَتَبَتْ أَسْتِيرُ ٱلْمَلِكَةُ بِنْتُ أَبِيحَائِلَ وَمُرْدَخَايُ ٱلْيَهُودِيُّ بِكُلِّ سُلْطَانٍ بِإِيجَابِ رِسَالَةِ ٱلْفُورِيمِ هَذِهِ ثَانِيَةً، | ٢٩ |
30 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.
| وَأَرْسَلَ ٱلْكِتَابَاتِ إِلَى جَمِيعِ ٱلْيَهُودِ، إِلَى كُوَرِ مَمْلَكَةِ أَحَشْوِيرُوشَ ٱلْمِئَةِ وَٱلسَّبْعِ وَٱلْعِشْرِينَ بِكَلَامِ سَلَامٍ وَأَمَانَةٍ، | ٣٠ |
| لِإِيجَابِ يَوْمَيِ ٱلْفُورِيمِ هَذَيْنِ فِي أَوْقَاتِهِمَا، كَمَا أَوْجَبَ عَلَيْهِمْ مُرْدَخَايُ ٱلْيَهُودِيُّ وَأَسْتِيرُ ٱلْمَلِكَةُ، وَكَمَا أَوْجَبُوا عَلَى أَنْفُسِهِمْ وَعَلَى نَسْلِهِمْ أُمُورَ ٱلْأَصْوَامِ وَصُرَاخِهِمْ. | ٣١ |
32 The letter that Esther wrote about the manner in which they should celebrate the Purim feast was also written in an official record.
| وَأَمْرُ أَسْتِيرَ أَوْجَبَ أُمُورَ ٱلْفُورِيمِ هَذِهِ، فَكُتِبَتْ فِي ٱلسِّفْرِ. | ٣٢ |
