Esther 2
1 Tok, kasrkusrak lal Tokosra Ahasuerus ne ohula, el srakna nunku ke ma Vashti el tuh oru ah, ac ke mwe fahkak se ma el tuh supwalik lainul Vashti.
After a while, King Xerxes quit being so angry. He thought about Vashti, and he thought about the law he had made because of what she [had done, and he wanted another wife].
2 Ouinge kutu sin mwet pwapa lun tokosra su fototo nu sel elos fahk nu sel, “Efu Tokosra ku tia sap in sukok kutu mutan fusr virgin kato?
So his personal servants said to him, “[Your majesty, ] you should send some men to search throughout the empire for some beautiful young women/virgins for you.
3 Tokosra el ku in srisrngia mwet kol in facl nukewa in tokosrai lal uh, tuh elos in usani mutan fusr oasku nukewa nu in lohm sin mutan in siti fulat Susa. Fuhlelosi inpaol Hegai, mwet eunuch se su karinganang un mutan kien tokosra, tuh elang asang mwe akmusra in aknasnas nu selos.
[After they find some, ] you can appoint some officials in each province to bring them to the place where you keep (your wives/the women you sleep with) here in Susa. Then Hegai, the man who is in charge of these women, can arrange for ointments to be put [on their bodies] to make them [more] beautiful.
4 Na tokosra fah eis mutan fusr se ma akinsewowoyal emeet, ac oru tuh elan kasrala in aolul Vashti.” Tokosra el nunku tuh kas in kasru na wowo se pa inge, ke ma inge el oru oana.
Then the woman who pleases you most can become queen instead of Vashti.” The king liked what they suggested, so he did it.
5 Oasr sie mwet Jew su muta Susa pangpang Mordecai, wen natul Jair, su ma natul Kish su ma natul Shimei in sruf lal Benjamin.
At that time there was a Jew [living] in Susa, the capital, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair. Jair was a descendant of Shimei. Shimei was a descendant of [King Saul’s father] Kish. [They were all] from the tribe descended from Benjamin.
6 Ke pacl se Tokosra Nebuchadnezzar lun Babylon el usalla Tokosra Jehoiachin lun Judah nu in sruoh liki acn Jerusalem, wi un mwet sruoh, Mordecai el inmasrlolos.
[Many years before that, ] King Nebuchadnezzar had taken (Mordecai/Mordecai’s family) [and brought them from Jerusalem] to Babylon, at the same time he brought King Jehoiachin of Judah and many other people to Babylon.
7 Oasr sie mutan fusr pangpang Esther, su inel in kas Hebrew pa Hadassah. El ma nutin mukul se wien papa tumal Mordecai. El mutan na kato se, ac wona atal. Ke sripen papa tumal ac nina kial ah misa, Mordecai el nutella ac oru oana acn natul sifacna.
Mordecai had a cousin whose [Hebrew] name was Hadassah. She had a beautiful face and beautiful body/figure. Her [Persian] name was Esther. After her father and mother died, Mordecai took care of Esther as though she were his own daughter.
8 Ke sap lun tokosra sulkakinyukelik, ac mutan fusr puspis utukeni nu Susa, Esther el inmasrlolos. El wi pac filiyuki nu in karinginyuk lal Hegai, su liyaung lohm sin mutan inkul fulat sin tokosra.
After the king commanded [that they search for some beautiful women], they brought Esther and many other young women to the king’s palace [in Susa], and (the king put Hegai/Hegai was put) in charge of them.
9 Hegai el arulana insewowo sel Esther, pwanang el sa na in sang mwe akmusra nu sel oayapa mwe mongo ma fal nu ke manol. El sang acn se ma wo oemeet in lohm sin mutan nu sel, ac pakiya mutan fusr itkosr ma solla in lohm sin tokosra in kulansupwal.
Hegai was very pleased with Esther, and he treated her well. He immediately arranged for her to be given ointments to make her [even more] beautiful, and [he ordered that] special food [would be given to her]. [He arranged that] seven maids from the king’s palace [would take care of her], and arranged that she/they would stay in the best rooms.
10 Fal nu ke kas in kasru lal Mordecai, Esther el tiana fahkak nu sin kutena mwet lah el sie mwet Jew.
Esther did not tell anyone that she was a Jew, because Mordecai had told her not to tell anyone.
11 Len nukewa Mordecai el forfor likinum in mutun lohm sin mutan, elan ku in etu lah fuka mutangal, ac mea ac sikyak nu sel.
Every day Mordecai walked near the courtyard of the place where those women stayed. He asked [people who entered the courtyard] to find out [and tell him] what was happening to Esther.
12 Pacl in naweyuk lun sie mutan muta orek ke yac nufon se. Akmusra ke oil myrrh orek ke malem onkosr, ac mwe akmusra ke ono keng orek ke malem onkosr pac. Tukun pacl sacn, oasr pacl lun kais sie mutan fusr inge in utukyak nu yorol Tokosra Ahasuerus.
Before these women were taken to the king, they put ointments on [the bodies of] these women for one year to make them more beautiful. For six months they [rubbed olive] oil mixed with myrrh [on their bodies each day]. For [the next] six months they rubbed ointments and perfumes on their bodies.
13 Pacl se el ac som liki lohm sin mutan nu in lohm fulat sin tokosra, el ku in sulela kutena nuknuk ku mwe yun elan nukum.
Then, when one of these women [was summoned to] go to the king, she was allowed to wear whatever clothes and jewelry she chose.
14 El ac som nu we ke eku, ac ke lotu tok ah ac utukla el nu in sie pacna lohm sin mutan, nu inpaol Shaashgaz, mwet eunuch se ma liyaung mutan kulansap kien tokosra. El fah tia sifilpa folok nu yorol tokosra, sayen tokosra el fin enenal ku sifacna pangnol ke inel.
In the evening, they would take her [to the king’s own room]. The next morning, they would take her to another place where the women [who had slept with the king] stayed. There another official whose name was Shaashgaz was in charge [of those women]. [Those women would live there for the rest of their lives, and] one of those women would go back to the king again only if the king very much wanted her to come again, and only if he told Shaashgaz the name of the woman.
15 Pacl lal Esther in som nu yorol tokosra. Esther el acn natul Abihail ac ma nutin tamulel lun papa tumal Mordecai, su nutella tuh elan acn se natul. Lungkinyuk Esther sin mwet nukewa ma liyal uh. Ke sun pacl lal, el nokomang na ma Hegai, mwet eunuch se ma karingin lohm sin mutan ah, fahk nu sel elan nukum.
Everyone who saw Esther liked her. After King Xerxes had been ruling for seven years, it was Esther’s turn to go to him. When they took her to the king, it was during the middle part of the winter. She wore only the things that Hegai suggested.
16 Ouinge ke yac se akitkosr lal Ahasuerus in tokosra, ke malem aksingoul, malem in Tebeth, utuku Esther nu yorol tokosra nu in lohm sel.
17 Tokosra el lungse el yohk liki kutena mutan saya, ac el arulana engan sel yohk liki mutan fusr ngia kewa. Tokosra el sunya sifal Esther ke tefuro lun kasra, ac oru tuh elan aolulla Vashti.
The king liked Esther more than he liked any of the other women [that they brought to him]. He liked her so much that he put on her head the queen’s crown, and he declared that Esther would be the queen instead of Vashti.
18 Na tokosra el oru sie kufwa lulap in akfulatyal Esther, ac el suli mwet fulat ac mwet leum lal nukewa. El oakiya len sac tuh in sie len lulap nu sin mutunfacl nukewa ma el leumi, ac el kitalik mwe sang yohk ma fal nu ke ouiya lun sie tokosra.
To celebrate her [becoming the queen], he had a big banquet/feast prepared for all his administrators and [other] officials. He generously gave [expensive] gifts to everyone, and he declared that in all the provinces there would be a holiday, [a time when people did not have to pay taxes].
19 In pacl sac pacna, tokosra el srisrngilya Mordecai nu ke sie orekma fulat.
Later all those women who had spent a night with the king were gathered together again. By that time Mordecai had become an official at the palace.
20 Esther el soenna akkalemye lah el sie mwet Jew. Mordecai el tuh fahk nu sel elan tiana fahk nu sin kutena mwet, na Esther el aksol ke ma se inge oana ke el tuh oru ke el srakna srik ac muta yorol.
But Esther still did not tell anyone that she was a Jew. She continued to do what Mordecai had told her to do.
21 In pacl se Mordecai el oru orekma lal inkul sin tokosra, Bigthana ac Teresh, luo sin mwet eunuch ke lohm sin tokosra su karingin mutunoa in utyak nu infukil sin tokosra, eltal eltal srungal Tokosra Ahasuerus, ac suk inkanek in unilya.
One day when Mordecai was doing his work in the palace, two of the king’s officials were there. Their names were Bigthana and Teresh. They were the guards who stood outside the king’s own rooms. They became angry [with the king], and they were planning how they could assassinate/kill him.
22 Mordecai el lohngak ac el fahkang nu sel Kasra Esther, na Esther el fahk nu sel tokosra ma Mordecai el fahk nu sel ah.
But Mordecai heard about what they were planning, and he told that to Queen Esther. Then she told the king what Mordecai had found out.
23 Oasr sukiyen ma se inge, ac koneyuyak tuh na pwaye. Ouinge mukul luo ah kewa loksakeyuki ke acn in loksak ah. Tokosra el sapkin in simla ma inge in book in sramsram oa lun tokosrai sac.
The king investigated and found out that Mordecai’s report was true. So the king ordered that those two men be hanged. When that was done, (an official wrote a report/a report was written) about it in a book called ‘The book that records what happened while Xerxes was king’.
