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1 ၁ ဤအဖြစ်အပျက်အလုံးစုံကို မော်ဒကဲ သိရသောအခါပြင်းစွာစိတ်ဒုက္ခရောက်လျက် မိမိ၏အဝတ်များကိုဆုတ်ပြီးလျှင်လျှော် တေကိုဝတ်၍ဦးခေါင်းကိုပြာနှင့်လူး၏။ ထို နောက်သူသည်ပြင်းပြစွာငိုကြွေးမြည်တမ်း လျက် နန်းတော်အဝင်ဝသို့ရောက်သည်တိုင် အောင်မြို့ကိုဖြတ်၍လျှောက်သွားလေသည်။ မည်သူမဆိုလျှော်တေကိုဝတ်၍ နန်းတွင်း သို့မဝင်ရသောကြောင့်သူသည်နန်းတွင်း သို့မဝင်ချေ။-
౧జరిగినదంతా మొర్దెకై విన్నాడు. అతడు తన బట్టలు చింపుకుని గోనెపట్ట వేసుకుని బూడిద పోసుకున్నాడు. నగరం నడిబొడ్డుకు వెళ్లి మహా శోకంతో విలపించాడు.
౨అతడు రాజ భవన ద్వారం వరకూ మాత్రమే వచ్చాడు. ఎందుకంటే గోనె కట్టుకున్న వాడు రాజు ద్వారం గుండా ప్రవేశించకూడదు అనే ఆజ్ఞ ఉంది.
3 ၃ မင်းကြီး၏အမိန့်ကြေငြာချက်ရောက်ရှိ လေရာပြည်နယ်တို့၌ ယုဒအမျိုးသား တို့သည်အစာရှောင်၍အော်ဟစ်ငိုကြွေး မြည်တမ်းကြကုန်၏။ လူတိုင်းလိုပင်လျှော် တေကိုဝတ်ကာပြာပေါ်တွင်လှဲ၍နေကြ ကုန်၏။
౩రాజాజ్ఞ, శాసనం అందిన సంస్థానాలన్నిటిలో అక్కడి యూదులంతా దుఃఖంలో మునిగిపోయి ఉపవాసం ఉంటూ గొప్ప శోకంతో, రోదనతో ఉన్నారు. చాలా మంది గోనె కట్టుకుని బూడిద పోసుకుని పడి ఉన్నారు.
4 ၄ အပျိုတော်တို့နှင့်မိန်းမစိုးတို့သည် မော်ဒကဲ အဘယ်သို့ပြုလျက်နေသည်ကိုဧသတာ အားပြောပြကြ၏။ ထိုအခါဧသတာ သည်လွန်စွာစိတ်ဒုက္ခရောက်၍ မော်ဒကဲအား လျှော်တေကိုလဲစေရန်ပေးပို့သော်လည်း မော်ဒကဲလက်မခံဘဲနေ၏။-
౪ఎస్తేరు దాసీలు, ఆమె దగ్గరున్న నపుంసకులు వచ్చి జరిగిన సంగతి ఆమెకు తెలియజేశారు. రాణికి చాలా దిగులు కలిగింది. మొర్దెకై కట్టుకున్న గోనెపట్టను తీసివేయమని ఆజ్ఞ ఇచ్చి, అతడు కట్టుకోవడానికి బట్టలు పంపించిందిగానీ అతడు వాటిని తీసుకోలేదు.
5 ၅ ထိုအခါမိဖုရားသည်မိမိ၏အစေခံ အဖြစ် မင်းကြီးခန့်ထားပေးသူ၊ မိန်းမစိုး ဟာတက်ကိုခေါ်ယူပြီးလျှင် အကျိုး အကြောင်းကိုစုံစမ်းရန်မော်ဒကဲထံ သို့စေလွှတ်လိုက်လေသည်။-
౫అప్పుడు ఎస్తేరు తనను సేవించడానికి రాజు నియమించిన నపుంసకుల్లో హతాకు అనే వాణ్ణి పిలిచి ఏమి జరిగిందో అదంతా ఎందుకో తెలుసుకుని రమ్మని పంపింది.
6 ၆ ဟာတက်သည်နန်းတော်တံခါးရှေ့မြို့တော် ကွက်လပ်တွင်ရှိသောမော်ဒကဲထံသို့သွား၏။-
౬హతాకు రాజద్వారం ఎదురుగా ఉన్న పట్టణ కూడలిలో మొర్దెకై దగ్గరికి వచ్చాడు.
7 ၇ မော်ဒကဲကသူ့အားဖြစ်ပျက်ခဲ့သည့် အမှုအရာအလုံးစုံကိုလည်းကောင်း၊ ယုဒအမျိုးသားအပေါင်းတို့ကိုကွပ် မျက်လျှင်ဘုရင့်ဘဏ္ဍာတော်သို့ငွေမည်မျှ ပေးသွင်းရန် ဟာမန်ကတိပြုထားကြောင်း ကိုလည်းကောင်းပြောပြ၏။-
౭మొర్దెకై తనకు జరిగినదంతా అతనికి వివరించాడు. హామాను యూదులను నాశనం చేయడానికి రాజు ఖజానాకు తూచి ఇస్తానని చెప్పిన సొమ్ము మొత్తం ఇంత అని అతనికి తెలిపాడు.
8 ၈ ယုဒအမျိုးသားများအားကွပ်မျက်ရန် အတွက် ရှုရှန်မြို့တွင်ထုတ်ပြန်ထားသည့် အမိန့်ကြေငြာချက်မိတ္တူတစ်စောင်ကို လည်းပေးလိုက်၏။ မော်ဒကဲသည်ဟာတက် အား``ဤအမိန့်ကြေငြာချက်မိတ္တူကိုဧသ တာအားပေး၍ ဖြစ်ပျက်လျက်ရှိသည့် အခြေအနေကိုရှင်းပြပါလော့။ ထိုနောက် သူ့အားမင်းကြီးထံသို့ဝင်၍ မိမိ၏လူ မျိုးအပေါ်တွင်ကရုဏာထားတော်မူရန် လျှောက်ထားတောင်းပန်စေပါလော့'' ဟု မှာကြားလိုက်လေသည်။-
౮ఎస్తేరుకు చూపించడం కోసం యూదుల ఊచకోతకై షూషనులో విడుదల చేసిన ఆజ్ఞ ప్రతిని కూడా అతనికి ఇచ్చాడు. ఆమె తన జాతి ప్రజల పక్షంగా రాజు సముఖానికి వెళ్లి అతనికి విజ్ఞప్తి చేసే బాధ్యత తీసుకోవాలని చెప్పాడు.
9 ၉ ဟာတက်သည်လည်းမော်ဒကဲမှာကြား လိုက်သည့်အတိုင်းပြု၏။-
౯అప్పుడు హతాకు వెళ్లి మొర్దెకై చెప్పినదంతా ఎస్తేరుకు తెలియజేశాడు.
10 ၁၀ ထိုအခါဧသတာသည်ဟာတက်မှတစ်ဆင့် မော်ဒကဲအား၊-
౧౦అప్పుడు ఎస్తేరు మొర్దెకైతో చెప్పమని హతాకుతో ఇలా చెప్పి పంపింది.
11 ၁၁ ``ယောကျာ်းဖြစ်စေ၊ မိန်းမဖြစ်စေမင်းကြီး ခေါ်တော်မမူဘဲနန်းတော်အတွင်းတံတိုင်း၊ မင်းကြီးထံတော်သို့ဝင်မိသူသည်သေဒဏ် ခံရမည်ဖြစ်ပါ၏။ ဤကားတရားဥပဒေ အရဖြစ်သဖြင့်ဘုရင့်အကြံပေးအမတ် များမှစ၍ ပြည်နယ်အသီးသီးရှိလူအ ပေါင်းတို့သိကြပါသည်။ ထိုဥပဒေကို ရှောင်ကွင်းနိုင်ရန်လမ်းတစ်လမ်းသာရှိပါ သည်။ အကယ်၍မင်းကြီးကရာဇလှံတံ တော်ကိုကမ်းတော်မူလျှင် ဝင်မိသူအသက် ချမ်းသာရာရပါ၏။ သို့ရာတွင်ကျွန်မ အားမင်းကြီးခေါ်ယူတော်မမူသည်မှာ တစ်လရှိပါပြီ'' ဟုပြန်ကြားလေသည်။
౧౧“పిలుపు రాకుండా పురుషుడు గానీ స్త్రీ గానీ రాజు గారి అంతఃపురం లోకి అడుగు పెడితే చట్ట ప్రకారం ఆ మనిషికి శిక్ష మరణమే. రాజు తన బంగారు రాజ దండాన్ని ఎవరివైపు చాపుతాడో ఆ వ్యక్తి మాత్రమే బ్రతుకుతాడు. ఈ కఠినమైన ఆజ్ఞ రాజసేవకులందరికీ రాజ సంస్థానాల్లోని వారందరికీ తెలుసు. ముప్ఫై రోజులుగా రాజు సముఖానికి వెళ్ళడానికి నాకు పిలుపు రాలేదు.”
12 ၁၂ မော်ဒကဲသည်ဧသတာပြန်ကြားသည့် စကားကိုကြားရသောအခါ၊-
౧౨హతాకు ఎస్తేరు మాటలు మొర్దెకైకి తెలిపాడు.
13 ၁၃ ဧသတာအား``သင်သည်နန်းတွင်း၌နေရ သဖြင့် အခြားယုဒအမျိုးသားများထက် ပို၍လုံခြုံမှုရှိလိမ့်မည်ဟုမထင်မှတ်ပါနှင့်။-
౧౩మొర్దెకై ఎస్తేరుకు ఇలా కబురంపాడు. “రాజ భవనంలో ఉన్నంత మాత్రాన ఇతర యూదులకు భిన్నంగా నువ్వు తప్పించుకుంటావనుకోవద్దు.
14 ၁၄ အကယ်၍သင်သည်ယခုအချိန်အခါမျိုး ၌ဆိတ်ဆိတ်နေပါမူ ယုဒအမျိုးသားတို့ သည် ကောင်းကင်ဘုံမှအကူအညီကိုရရှိ ၍ကယ်တင်ခြင်းကိုခံရကြပါမည်။ သင်မူ ကားအသတ်ခံရလျက်ဖခင်၏အိမ်ထောင်စု သည်လည်းပျက်စီးဆုံးပါးကြလိမ့်မည်။ သို့ ရာတွင်သင်မိဖုရားဖြစ်လာရသည်မှာ ဤ အချိန်အခါမျိုးအတွက်ပင်ဖြစ်သည်မ ဟုတ်ပါလော'' ဟုသတိပေးစကားမှာ ကြားလိုက်၏။
౧౪నువ్వు ఈ సమయంలో ఏమీ మాట్లాడక పోతే యూదులకు సహాయం, విడుదల వేరొక దిక్కునుండి వస్తుంది. అయితే నువ్వూ నీ తండ్రి వంశమూ నశిస్తారు. నువ్వొకవేళ ఇలాటి తరుణం కోసమే ఈ రాజరికానికి వచ్చావేమో ఎవరికి తెలుసు?”
15 ၁၅ ဧသတာသည်မော်ဒကဲအား၊
౧౫అప్పుడు ఎస్తేరు మొర్దెకైకి ఇలా చెప్పి పంపింది.
16 ၁၆ ``ရှုရှန်မြို့တွင်ရှိသမျှသောယုဒအမျိုး သားတို့ကိုစုရုံးပြီးလျှင် ကျွန်မအတွက် အစာရှောင်စေ၍ နေ့ညဥ့်မပြတ်သုံးရက် ပတ်လုံးမစားမသောက်ဘဲနေကြပါစေ။ ကျွန်မနှင့်ကျွန်မ၏အပျိုတော်တို့သည် လည်းအစာရှောင်ကြပါမည်။ ထိုနောက်တရား ဥပဒေကူးလွန်၍သေဒဏ်ခံရစေကာမူ မင်းကြီးထံသို့ကျွန်မဝင်ပါမည်'' ဟုပြန် ကြားလိုက်၏။
౧౬“షూషనులో ఉన్న యూదులందరినీ సమకూర్చి నాకోసం ఉపవాసముండేలా చెయ్యి. మూడు రోజులు ఏమీ తినవద్దు, తాగవద్దు. నేనూ నా దాసీలు కూడా ఉపవాసం ఉంటాము. చట్టవ్యతిరేకం అయినప్పటికీ నేను రాజు దగ్గరికి వెళ్తాను. నేను నశిస్తే నశిస్తాను.”
17 ၁၇ ထိုအခါမော်ဒကဲသည်ထွက်ခွာကာ ဧသတာ မှာကြားလိုက်သည့်အတိုင်းပြုလေသည်။
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