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.
Le treize du douzième mois, du mois d'adar, l'édit du roi fut exécuté.
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].
Ce jour-là, les ennemis des Juifs périrent, et nul ne se défendit à cause de la crainte qu'ils avaient d'eux.
3 All the governors and [other] officials and important people in all the provinces helped the Jews, because they were afraid of Mordecai.
Et les officiers des satrapes, et les rois, et les scribes royaux, honorèrent les Juifs; car ils redoutaient Mardochée.
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.
Et l'édit du roi en vint à être loué dans tout le royaume.
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.
6 [Just] in Susa alone, the capital city, they killed 500 people.
7 Among those whom they killed were the ten sons of Haman. [Their names were] Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,
Pharsannès, et Delphon, et Phasgas,
8 Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
Et Phardathas, et Barcas, et Sarbacas,
9 Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha.
Et Marmarinas, et Ruphès, et Arsès, et Zabuthis.
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.
Et ils enlevèrent les dix fils d'Aman, fils d'Amadathe le Bugéen, l'ennemi des Juifs, et ils pillèrent leurs maisons
11 [At the end of] that day someone reported to the king the number of people whom the Jews killed in Susa.
Ce même jour-là. Et on remit au roi le dénombrement de ceux qui, à Suse, avaient péri.
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.”
Et le roi dit à Esther: Les Juifs ont tué cinq cents hommes à Suse; combien penses-tu qu'ils en aient exterminé dans les provinces? Que demandes- tu encore, que te faut-il?
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.”
Et Esther répondit: Qu'il soit permis aux Juifs d'en user de même demain jusqu'à pendre les dix fils d'Aman.
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.
Et le roi le voulut ainsi; et les corps des fils d'Aman furent livrés aux Juifs de la ville pour être pendus.
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.
Et les Juifs de Suse se réunirent le quatorze d'Adar, et ils tuèrent trois cents hommes, et ils ne prirent rien de leurs dépouilles.
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.
Les autres Juifs du royaume se réunirent et se prêtèrent un mutuel secours, et ils se débarrassèrent de leurs ennemis; car ils en tuèrent quinze mille, le treize d'adar, et ils ne prirent rien.
17 That occurred on March 7th, and on the following day they rested and celebrated.
Et ils restèrent en repos le quatorze du même mois, car ils fêtèrent ce jour de repos par de grandes réjouissances.
18 After the Jews in Susa gathered together [and killed their enemies] on March 7th and 8th, they rested and celebrated on March 9th.
Mais les Juifs de Suse ne cessèrent le massacre qu'à fin du quatorze; et ils passèrent le quinze à se réjouir.
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.
À cause de cela, les Juifs dispersés dans toutes les provinces ont coutume de fêter le quatorze d'adar, et chacun envoie des parts à son voisin. Mais ceux qui vivent au loin dans des grandes villes célèbrent la fête le quinze d'Adar, en envoyant des parts à leurs voisins.
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.
Mardochée écrivit ces choses en un livre, et il envoya dire à tous les Juifs qui demeuraient dans le royaume d'Artaxerxès, soit près, soit loin,
21 He told them that every year they should celebrate on the 8th and 9th of March,
D'instituer ces jours comme des jours heureux, et de fêter le treize et le quatorze d'adar.
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.
Car, en ces deux journées, les Juifs avaient été délivrés de leurs ennemis; et le mois, qui est adar, durant lequel ils avaient passé du deuil à la joie, et des douleurs à un jour heureux, fut consacré tout entier aux jours heureux des noces et des réjouissances; et chacun envoya des parts à ses amis et aux indigents.
23 So the Jews agreed to do what Mordecai wrote. They agreed to celebrate on those days [every year].
Et les Juifs se sont conformés depuis à ce qu'avait écrit Mardochée, leur faisant savoir:
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.
Comme Aman, fils d'Amadathe le Macédonien, était devenu leur ennemi; comme il avait fait un édit, et agité les sorts pour les exterminer;
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.
Comme il était entré chez le roi, lui disant de faire pendre Mardochée; et comment tous les maux qu'il avait essayé de faire tomber sur les Juifs étaient tombés sur lui-même, qui avait été pendu ainsi que ses fils.
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,
À cause de cela, ces jours furent appelés Phrurées, à cause des sorts (car, dans leur dialecte, les sorts se traduisent par Phrurées); à cause des paroles de ce livre de Mardochée, et à cause de ce qu'ils avaient souffert à ce sujet et de ce qui leur était advenu.
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.
Et il régla les choses ainsi. Et les Juifs adoptèrent l'usage de ces fêtes pour eux et pour leur race, et pour ceux qui se joignirent à eux pour les observer, et ils ne feront jamais autrement; et ces jours sont un mémorial gardé de générations en générations en chaque ville, chaque famille, chaque province.
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.
Et ces jours des Phrurées, disent-ils, seront gardés en tout temps, et le mémorial ne manquera à aucune génération.
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.
Et la reine Esther, fille d'Aminadab, et le Juif Mardochée, écrivirent tout ce qu'ils avaient fait pour confirmer la lettre concernant les Phrurées.
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.
32 The letter that Esther wrote about the manner in which they should celebrate the Purim feast was also written in an official record.
Et Esther fit cela par un commandement pour toujours, et elle l'écrivit en un mémoire.
