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.
| روز سیزدهم ادار، یعنی روزی که قرار بود فرمان پادشاه به مرحلهٔ اجرا درآید، فرا رسید. در این روز، دشمنان یهود امیدوار بودند بر یهودیان غلبه یابند، اما قضیه برعکس شد و یهودیان بر دشمنان خود پیروز شدند. |
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].
| در سراسر ولایتهای خشایارشای پادشاه، یهودیان در شهرهای خود جمع شدند تا به کسانی که قصد آزارشان را داشتند، حمله کنند. همه مردم از یهودیان می‌ترسیدند و جرأت نمی‌کردند در برابرشان بایستند. |
3 All the governors and [other] officials and important people in all the provinces helped the Jews, because they were afraid of Mordecai.
| تمام حاکمان و استانداران، مقامات مملکتی و درباریان از ترس مردخای، به یهودیان کمک می‌کردند؛ |
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.
| زیرا مردخای از شخصیتهای برجستهٔ دربار شده بود و در سراسر مملکت، شهرت فراوان داشت و روز بروز بر قدرتش افزوده می‌شد. |
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.
| به این ترتیب یهودیان به دشمنان خود حمله کردند و آنها را از دم شمشیر گذرانده، کشتند. |
6 [Just] in Susa alone, the capital city, they killed 500 people.
| یهودیان در شهر شوش که پایتخت بود، ۵۰۰ نفر را کشتند. |
7 Among those whom they killed were the ten sons of Haman. [Their names were] Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,
| ده پسر هامان، دشمن یهودیان، نیز جزو این کشته‌شدگان بودند. اسامی آنها عبارت بود از: فرشنداتا، دلفون، اسفاتا، فوراتا، ادلیا، اریداتا، فرمشتا، اریسای، اریدای و ویزاتا. اما یهودیان اموال دشمنان را غارت نکردند. |
8 Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
9 Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha.
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.
11 [At the end of] that day someone reported to the king the number of people whom the Jews killed in Susa.
| در آن روز، آمار کشته‌شدگان پایتخت به عرض پادشاه رسید. |
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.”
| سپس او ملکه استر را خواست و گفت: «یهودیان تنها در پایتخت ۵۰۰ نفر را که ده پسر هامان نیز جزو آنها بودند، کشته‌اند، پس در سایر شهرهای مملکت چه کرده‌اند! آیا درخواست دیگری نیز داری؟ هر چه بخواهی به تو می‌دهم. بگو درخواست تو چیست.» |
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.”
| استر گفت: «پادشاها، اگر صلاح بدانید به یهودیان پایتخت اجازه دهید کاری را که امروز کرده‌اند، فردا هم ادامه دهند، و اجساد ده پسر هامان را نیز به دار بیاویزند.» |
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.
| پادشاه با این درخواست استر هم موافقت کرد و فرمان او در شوش اعلام شد. اجساد پسران هامان نیز به دار آویخته شد. |
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.
| پس روز بعد، باز یهودیان پایتخت جمع شدند و ۳۰۰ نفر دیگر را کشتند، ولی به مال کسی دست‌درازی نکردند. |
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.
| بقیهٔ یهودیان در سایر استانها نیز جمع شدند و از خود دفاع کردند. آنها ۷۵٬۰۰۰ نفر از دشمنان خود را کشتند و از شر آنها رهایی یافتند، ولی اموالشان را غارت نکردند. |
17 That occurred on March 7th, and on the following day they rested and celebrated.
| این کار در روز سیزدهم ماه اَدار انجام گرفت و آنها روز بعد، یعنی چهاردهم ادار پیروزی خود را با شادی فراوان جشن گرفتند. |
18 After the Jews in Susa gathered together [and killed their enemies] on March 7th and 8th, they rested and celebrated on March 9th.
| اما یهودیان شوش، روز پانزدهم ادار را جشن گرفتند، زیرا در روزهای سیزدهم و چهاردهم، دشمنان خود را می‌کشتند. |
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.
| یهودیانِ روستاها به این مناسبت روز چهاردهم ادار را با شادی جشن می‌گیرند و به هم هدیه می‌دهند. |
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.
| مردخای تمام این وقایع را نوشت و برای یهودیانی که در سراسر ولایتهای خشایارشای پادشاه بودند، چه دور و چه نزدیک، فرستاد |
21 He told them that every year they should celebrate on the 8th and 9th of March,
| و از آنها خواست تا همه ساله روزهای چهاردهم و پانزدهم ادار را به مناسبت نجات یهود از چنگ دشمنانشان، جشن بگیرند و شادی نمایند، به یکدیگر هدیه بدهند و به فقیران کمک کنند، زیرا در چنین روزی بود که غمشان به شادی، و ماتمشان به شادکامی تبدیل شد. |
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.
23 So the Jews agreed to do what Mordecai wrote. They agreed to celebrate on those days [every year].
| قوم یهود پیشنهاد مردخای را پذیرفتند و از آن پس، همه ساله این روز را جشن گرفتند. |
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.
| این روز به یهودیان یادآوری می‌کرد که هامان پسر همداتای اجاجی و دشمن یهود برای نابودی آنان قرعه (که به آن «پور» می‌گفتند) انداخته بود تا روز کشتارشان را تعیین کند؛ |
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.
| اما وقتی این خبر به گوش پادشاه رسید او فرمانی صادر کرد تا همان بلایی که هامان می‌خواست بر سر یهودیان بیاورد، بر سر خودش بیاید، پس هامان و پسرانش به دار کشیده شدند. |
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,
| (این ایام «پوریم» نامیده می‌شود که از کلمه «پور» به معنی قرعه، گرفته شده است.) با توجه به نامهٔ مردخای و آنچه که اتفاق افتاده بود، |
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.
| یهودیان این را به صورت رسم درآوردند که خود و فرزندانشان و تمام کسانی که به دین یهود می‌گروند این دو روز را هر ساله طبق دستور مردخای جشن بگیرند. |
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.
| بنابراین، قرار بر این شد که یهودیان سراسر استانها و شهرها ایام پوریم را نسل اندر نسل همیشه به یاد آورند و آن را جشن بگیرند. |
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.
| در ضمن، ملکه استر با تمام اقتداری که داشت نامهٔ مردخای یهودی را دربارهٔ برگزاری دائمی مراسم پوریم تأیید کرد. |
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.
| علاوه بر این، نامه‌های تشویق‌آمیز دیگری به تمام یهودیان ۱۲۷ ولایت مملکت خشایارشا نوشته شد تا به موجب فرمان مردخای یهودی و ملکه استر، یهودیان و نسلهای آینده‌شان ایام «پوریم» را همه ساله نگه دارند. یهودیان روزه و سوگواری این ایام را نیز به جا می‌آوردند. |
32 The letter that Esther wrote about the manner in which they should celebrate the Purim feast was also written in an official record.
| به این ترتیب، مراسم ایام «پوریم» به فرمان استر تأیید شد و در تاریخ یهود ثبت گردید. |
