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.
E no mês duodécimo, que é o mês de Adar, no dia treze do mesmo mês em que chegou a palavra do rei e a sua ordem para a executar, no dia em que os inimigos dos judeus esperavam assenhorear-se deles, sucedeu o contrário, porque os judeus foram os que se assenhorearam dos seus aborrecedores.
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].
Porque os judeus nas suas cidades, em todas as províncias do rei Assuero, se ajuntaram para pôr as mãos naqueles que procuravam o seu mal: e nenhum parou diante deles; porque o seu terror caiu sobre todos aqueles povos.
3 All the governors and [other] officials and important people in all the provinces helped the Jews, because they were afraid of Mordecai.
E todos os maiorais das províncias, e os sátrapas, e os governadores, e os que faziam a obra do rei, exaltavam os judeus porque tinha caído sobre eles o temor de mardoqueu.
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.
Porque mardoqueu era grande na casa do rei, e a sua fama saía por todas as províncias; porque o homem mardoqueu se ia engrandecendo.
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.
Feriram pois os judeus a todos os seus inimigos, às cutiladas da espada, e da matança e da destruição: e fizeram dos seus aborrecedores o que quizeram.
6 [Just] in Susa alone, the capital city, they killed 500 people.
E na fortaleza de Susan mataram e destruiram os judeus quinhentos homens;
7 Among those whom they killed were the ten sons of Haman. [Their names were] Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,
Como também a Parsandatha, e a Dalphon, e a Aspatha,
8 Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
E a Poratha, e a Adalia, e a Aridatha,
9 Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha.
E a Pharmasta, e a Arisai, e a Aridai, e a 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.
Os dez filhos de Haman, filho de Hammedatha, o inimigo dos judeus, mataram, porém ao despojo não estenderam a sua mão.
11 [At the end of] that day someone reported to the king the number of people whom the Jews killed in Susa.
No mesmo dia veio perante o rei o número dos mortos na fortaleza de Susan.
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.”
E disse o rei à rainha Esther: Na fortaleza de Susan mataram e destruiram os judeus quinhentos homens, e os dez filhos de Haman; nas mais províncias do rei que fariam? qual é pois a tua petição, e dar-se-te-á; ou qual é ainda o teu requerimento? e far-se-á.
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.”
Então disse Esther: Se bem parecer ao rei, conceda-se também amanhã aos judeus que se acham em Susan que façam conforme ao mandado de hoje: e enforquem os dez filhos de Haman numa forca.
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.
Então disse o rei que assim se fizesse; e deu-se um edito em Susan, e enforcaram os dez filhos de Haman.
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.
E ajuntaram-se os judeus que se achavam em Susan também no dia quatorze do mês de Adar, e mataram em Susan a trezentos homens: porém ao despojo não estenderam a sua mão.
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.
Também os demais judeus que se achavam nas províncias do rei se ajuntaram para se porém em defesa da sua vida, e tiveram repouso dos seus inimigos; e mataram dos seus aborrecedores setenta e cinco mil; porém ao despojo não estenderam a sua mão.
17 That occurred on March 7th, and on the following day they rested and celebrated.
Sucedeu isto no dia treze do mês de Adar: e repousaram no dia quatorze do mesmo, e fizeram daquele dia dia de banquetes e de alegria.
18 After the Jews in Susa gathered together [and killed their enemies] on March 7th and 8th, they rested and celebrated on March 9th.
Também os judeus, que se achavam em Susan se ajuntaram nos dias treze e quatorze do mesmo: e repousaram no dia quinze do mesmo, e fizeram daquele dia dia de banquetes e de alegria.
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.
Os judeus porém das aldeias, que habitavam nas vilas, fizeram do dia quatorze do mês de Adar dia de alegria e de banquetes, e dia de folguedo, e de mandarem presentes uns aos outros.
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.
E mardoqueu escreveu estas coisas, e enviou cartas a todos os judeus que se achavam em todas as províncias do rei Assuero, aos de perto, e aos de longe,
21 He told them that every year they should celebrate on the 8th and 9th of March,
Ordenando-lhes que guardassem o dia quatorze do mês de Adar, e o dia quinze do mesmo, todos os anos,
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.
Conforme aos dias em que os judeus tiveram repouso dos seus inimigos; e ao mês que se lhes mudou de tristeza em alegria, e de luto em dia de folguedo; para que os fizessem dias de banquetes e de alegria, e de mandarem presentes uns aos outros, e aos pobres dádivas.
23 So the Jews agreed to do what Mordecai wrote. They agreed to celebrate on those days [every year].
E se encarregaram os judeus de fazerem o que já tinham começado, como também o que mardoqueu lhes tinha escrito.
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.
Porque Haman, filho de Hammedatha, o agagita, inimigo de todos os judeus, tinha intentado destruir os judeus; e tinha lançado pur, isto é, a sorte, para os assolar e destruir.
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.
Mas, vindo isto perante o rei, mandou ele por cartas que o seu mau intento, que intentara contra os judeus, se tornasse sobre a sua cabeça; pelo que o enforcaram a ele e a seus filhos numa forca.
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,
Por isso àqueles dias chamam purim, do nome pur; pelo que também por causa de todas as palavras daquela carta, e do que viram sobre isso, e do que lhes tinha sucedido,
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.
Confirmaram os judeus, e tomaram sobre si, e sobre a sua semente, e sobre todos os que se achegassem a eles, que não se deixaria de guardar estes dois dias conforme ao que se escrevera deles, e segundo o seu tempo determinado, todos os anos.
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.
E que estes dias seriam lembrados e guardados por cada geração, família, província, e cidade, e que estes dias de purim não traspassariam dentre os judeus, e que a memória deles nunca teria fim entre os de sua semente.
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.
Depois disto escreveu a rainha Esther, filha de Abigail, e mardoqueu o judeu, com toda a força, para confirmarem segunda vez esta carta de purim.
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.
E mandaram cartas a todos os judeus, às cento e vinte e sete províncias do reino de Assuero, com palavras de paz e fidelidade,
Para confirmarem estes dias de purim nos seus tempos determinados, como mardoqueu, o judeu, e a rainha Esther lhes tinham estabelecido, e como eles mesmos já o tinham estabelecido sobre si e sobre a sua semente, acerca do jejum e do seu clamor.
32 The letter that Esther wrote about the manner in which they should celebrate the Purim feast was also written in an official record.
E o mandado de Esther estabeleceu os sucessos daquele purim: e escreveu-se num livro.
