एस्तर 2
1 यी कुरापछि जब राजा अहासूरसको रिस मर्यो तिनले वश्ती र उनले गरेकी कुराको बारेमा सोचे । तिनले उनको विरुद्धमा निकालेको आदेशको बारेमा पनि सोचे ।
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 तब राजाको सेवा गर्ने जवान मानिसहरूले तिनलाई भने, “राजाको लागि सुन्दरी कन्या युवतीहरूको खोजी गर्ने काम होस् ।
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 राजाले शूशनको किल्लाको स्त्री-घरमा सबै सुन्दरी कन्या युवतीहरू ल्याउनलाई आफ्नो राज्यका सारा प्रान्तहरूमा अधिकारीहरू नियुक्त गर्ने काम होस् । तिनीहरूलाई स्त्रीहरूको निरिक्षक राजाका अधिकारी हेगेको हेरचाहमा राखियोस्, र तिनले उनीहरूलाई आफ्ना सिङ्गारका सामानहरू उपलब्ध गराऊन् ।
[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 राजालाई खुसी पार्ने युवतीचाहिं वश्तीको सट्टामा रानी होऊन् ।” राजालाई यो सल्लाह मन पर्यो, र तिनले त्यसै गरे ।
Then the woman who pleases you most can become queen instead of Vashti.” The king liked what they suggested, so he did it.
5 शूशनको किल्लामा कोही एक जना यहूदी थिए जसको नाउँ मोर्दकै थियो जो याईरका छोरा, शिमीका नाति र कीशका पनाति बेन्यामीन कुलका थिए ।
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 तिनी यहूदाका राजा यहोयाकीनसँगै यरूशलेमबाट निर्वासनमा लगिनेहरूमध्ये एक जना थिए जसलाई बेबिलोनका राजा नबूकदनेसरले कैद गरेर लगेका थिए ।
[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 तिनले हदस्सा अर्थात् आफ्ना काकाकी छोरी एस्तरको हेरचाह गर्दै थिए, किनकि उनका बुबाआमा थिएनन् । यी युवतीको चेहरा सुन्दर थियो, र हेर्दा राम्री देखिन्थिन् । मोर्दकैले उनलाई आफ्नै छोरीको रूपमा लिएका थिए ।
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 जब राजाको आदेश र उर्दीको घोषणा गरियो, तब धेरै जना युवतीहरू शूशनको किल्लामा ल्याइए । तिनीहरूलाई हेगेको हेरचाहमा राखियो । एस्तर पनि राजदरबारमा लगिइन् र स्त्रीहरूको निरिक्षक हेगेको हेरचाहमा राखिइन् ।
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 यी युवतीले तिनलाई खुसी पारिन्, र उनले तिनको निगाह पाइन् । तिनले तुरुन्तै उनको लागि सिङ्गारका सामानहरू र उनको खानाको हिस्सा उपलब्ध गराए । तिनले उनको लागि राजदरबारका सात जना सेविका तोकिदिए, र तिनले उनी र उनका सेविकाहरूलाई स्त्री-घरको सबैभन्दा राम्रो ठाउँमा सारे ।
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 एस्तरको मानिसहरू र उनका नातेदारहरू को थिए भनेर उनले कसैलाई भनेकी थिइनन्, किनकि मोर्दकैले त्यो नबताउन उनलाई निर्देशन दिएका थिए ।
Esther did not tell anyone that she was a Jew, because Mordecai had told her not to tell anyone.
11 एस्तरको अवस्था र उनलाई के गरिन्छ भनी जान्न हरेक दिन मोर्दकै स्त्री-घरको बाहिरपट्टि चोकमा ओहोर-दोहोर गर्थे ।
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 स्त्रीहरूका लागि तोकिएको प्रावधानअनुसार, छ महिनासम्म मूर्रको तेल दलेर र छ महिनासम्म अत्तरसाथै सिङ्गारका सामानहरूले सिङ्गारिएर हरेक कन्याले बाहृ महिनासम्म सुन्दरतामा ध्यान दिएपछि—प्रत्येक स्त्रीको राजा अहासूरसकहाँ जाने पालो आउँथ्यो—
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 एक जना युवती राजाकहाँ जाँदा, स्त्री-घरबाट तिनलाई जे लिएर जाने इच्छा हुन्थ्यो त्यो तिनलाई राजदरबारमा लान दिइन्थ्यो ।
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 साँझमा तिनी भित्र जान्थिन्, र भोलिपल्ट बिहान तिनी दोस्रो स्त्री-घरमा फर्केर आउँथिन्, र फर्केर आएकाहरू उपपत्नीहरूका निरिक्षक राजाका अधिकारी शाश्गजको अधीनमा रहन्थे । राजाले तिनलाई मन पराएर फेरि तिनलाई नबोलाएसम्म तिनी फेरि राजाकहाँ फर्केर जानछैनन् ।
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 जब राजाकहाँ जाने एस्तरको पालो आयो, (मोर्दकैका काका अबीहेलकी छोरी, जसलाई तिनले आफ्नै छोरी बनाएका थिए) स्त्रीहरूका निरक्षक राजाका अधिकारी हेगेले दिएका सल्लाहबाहेक उनले कुनै कुनै थोक मागिनन् । एस्तरलाई देख्ने सबै जनाबाट उनले निगाह पाइन् ।
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 अहासूरसको सातौँ वर्षको दसौँ महिना अर्थात् तेबेत महिनामा एस्तरलाई राजाको राजकीय बासस्थानमा लगियो ।
17 राजाले अन्य कुनै स्त्रीलाई भन्दा एस्तरलाई बढी मन पराए, र अन्य सबै कन्याहरूले भन्दा बढी उनले स्वीकृति र निगाह पाए । त्यसैले तिनले उनको शिरमा राजकीय शिरपेच पहिराइदिए, र वश्तीको साटो उनलाई रानी बनाए ।
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 राजाले आफ्ना सबै अधिकारी र सेवकहरूलाई एउटा ठुलो, “एस्तरको भोज” भोज दिए र तिनले प्रान्तहरूलाई कर छुट दिए । तिनले राजकीय उदारतासहित उपहारहरू पनि दिए ।
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 अब दोस्रो पटक कन्याहरू भेला भइरहेका समयमा मोर्दकै राजाको मूलद्वारमा बसिरहेका थिए ।
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 मोर्दकैले एस्तरलाई निर्देशन दिएअनुसार उनले आफ्नो जाति र आफ्ना नातेदारहरूको बारेमा कसैलाई भनेकी थिइनन् । मोर्दकैले उनलाई हुर्काउँदाको बेलामा झैँ उनले तिनको सल्लाहलाई निरन्तर मानिन् ।
But Esther still did not tell anyone that she was a Jew. She continued to do what Mordecai had told her to do.
21 ती दिनमा मोर्दकै राजाको मूलद्वारमा बसिरहँदा राजाका दुई जना द्वारपाल अधिकारीहरू बिग्थाना र तेरेश रिसाए, अनि तिनीहरूले राजा अहासूरसको हानि गर्न खोजे ।
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 मोर्दकैले यो कुरो थाहा पाएपछि तिनले रानी एस्तरलाई बताए, अनि रानीले मोर्दकैको नाउँ लिएर राजालाई बताइन् ।
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 त्यो सुचनको अनुसन्धान भयो र पुष्टि भयो, अनि दुवै जनालाई फाँसीको सजाए दिएर काठमा झुण्ड्याइयो । यो कुरोलाई राजाको उपस्थितिमा इतिहासको पुस्तकमा लेखियो ।
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’.
