एस्तर 9

1 बाह्रौँ महिना अर्थात् अदार महिनाको तेह्रौँ दिनमा राजाको कानुन र आदेशलाई कार्यान्वयन गर्ने दिन, यहूदीहरूका शत्रुहरूले तिनीहरूमाथि शक्ति जमाउनलाई आशा गरेको दिन जब आयो, परिणाम उल्‍टो भयो । यहूदीहरूले आफूलाई घृणा गर्नेहरूमाथि शक्ति पाए ।

On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the king’s command and edict were to be executed. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but their plan was overturned and the Jews overpowered those who hated them.

2 यहूदीहरूमाथि विपत्ती ल्याउन कोसिस गर्नेहरूलाई आक्रमण गर्न राजा अहासूरसका सबै प्रान्तभरि नै तिनीहरूका आ-आफ्ना सहरहरूमा तिनीहरू भेला । तिनीहरूको विरुद्धमा कोही खडा हुन सकेन, किनकि सबै मानिसमाथि तिनीहरूको डर परेको थियो ।

In each of the provinces of King Xerxes, the Jews assembled in their cities to attack those who sought to harm them. No man could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen upon all peoples.

3 सबै प्रान्तका अधिकारीहरू, प्रान्तीय गभर्नरहरू, सथानीय गभर्नरहरू र राजाका प्रशासकहरूले यहूदीहरूलाई मदत गरे किनकि तिनीहरूमाथि मोर्दकैको डर परेको थियो ।

And all the officials of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and the king’s administrators helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen upon them.

4 मोर्दकै राजदरबारमा महान् मानिस थिए, अनि तिनको ख्याति सबै प्रान्तभरि फैलियो किनकि यी मानिस मोर्दकै झनझन महान् बन्दै थिए ।

For Mordecai exercised great power in the palace, and his fame spread throughout the provinces as he became more and more powerful.

5 यहूदीहरूले आफ्ना शत्रुहरूलाई तरवारले आक्रमण गरेर मारे र विनाश गरे अनि आफूलाई घृणा गर्नेहरूलाई आफ्नो इच्छाअनुसार गरे ।

The Jews put all their enemies to the sword, killing and destroying them, and they did as they pleased to those who hated them.

6 शूशनको किल्लामा मात्रै यहूदीहरूले पाँच सय जना मानिसलाई मारेर नष्‍ट पारे ।

In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men,

7 तिनीहरूले पर्शन्‍दाता, दल्‍फोन, अस्‍पाता,

including Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,

8 पोराता, अदलिया, अरीदाता,

Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,

9 पर्मशता, अरीशै, अरीदै र बैजाता,

Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha.

10 र हम्मदाताको छोरा यहूदीहरूका शत्रु हामानका दस जना छोरालाई मारे । तर तिनीहरूले कुनै कुरा पनि लुटेर लिएनन् ।

They killed these ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.

11 त्यो दिन शूशनको किल्लामा मारिएकाहरूको सङ्ख्याको विवरण राजालाई दिइयो ।

On that day the number of those killed in the citadel of Susa was reported to the king,

12 राजाले रानी एस्तरलाई भने, “यहूदीहरूले हामानका दस छोरासहित शूशनको किल्लामा पाँच सय मानिसलाई मारेका छन् । तब राजाका बाँकी प्रान्तहरूमा तिनीहरूले झन् के गरेका होलान्? अब तिम्रो बिन्ती के हो? त्‍यो तिमीलाई दिइनेछ । तिम्रो अनुरोध के हो? त्‍यो तिमीलाई दिइनेछ ।”

who said to Queen Esther, “In the citadel of Susa the Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men, including Haman’s ten sons. What have they done in the rest of the royal provinces? Now what is your petition? It will be given to you. And what further do you request? It will be fulfilled.”

13 एस्तरले भनिन्, “राजालाई खुसी लागेमा शूशनमा भएका यहूदीहरूलाई आजको आदेश भोलीको निम्ति पनि कार्यान्वयन गर्न अनुमति दिइयोस् र हामानका दसै जना छोराका लाशलाई फाँसीको काठमा झुण्ड्याइयोस् ।”

Esther replied, “If it pleases the king, may the Jews in Susa also have tomorrow to carry out today’s edict, and may the bodies of Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”

14 त्यसैले राजाले त्यसै गरियोस् भनी आज्ञा दिए । शूशनमा एउटा आदेश निकालियो, र तिनीहरूले हामानका दसै जना छोरालाई झुण्ड्याए ।

So the king commanded that this be done. An edict was issued in Susa, and they hanged the ten sons of Haman.

15 अदार महिनाको चौधौँ दिनमा शूशनमा भएका यहूदीहरू एकै ठाउँमा भेला भए, र शूशनमा थप तिन सय जना मानिसलाई मारे, तर तिनीहरूले लुटपाटमा हात हालेनन् ।

On the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, the Jews in Susa came together again and put to death three hundred men there, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.

16 राजाका प्रान्तहरूमा भएका बाँकी यहूदीहरू आफ्‍नो ज्यान जोगाउन एकै ठाउँमा भेला भए, र तिनीहरूले आफ्ना शत्रुहरूबाट छुटकारा पाए, अनि आफूलाई घृणा गर्ने पचहत्तर हजार मानिसलाई मारे, तर आफूले मारेका मनिसहरूका मुल्‍यवान थोकहरूमा भने तिनीहरूले आफ्‍ना हात लगाएनन् ।

The rest of the Jews in the royal provinces also assembled to defend themselves and rid themselves of their enemies. They killed 75,000 who hated them, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.

17 यो अदार महिनाको तेह्रौँ दिनमा भएको थियो । चौधौँ दिनमा तिनीहरूले विश्राम लिए, र त्यस दिनलाई एउटा चाड र हर्षको दिन बनाए ।

This was done on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested, making it a day of feasting and joy.

18 तर शूशनमा भएका यहूदीहरूचाहिँ तेह्रौँ र चौधौँ दिनमा एकसाथ भेला भए । पन्ध्रौँ दिनमा तिनीहरूले विश्राम गरे, र त्यस दिनलाई एउटा चाड र हर्षको दिन बनाए ।

The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and the fourteenth days of the month. So they rested on the fifteenth day, making it a day of feasting and joy.

19 त्यसकारण दुर्गम गाउँहरूतिर घर बनाएका यहूदीहरूले अदार महिनाको चौधौँ दिनलाई हर्ष र चाडको एउटा दिन अनि एक-अर्कालाई खानेकुराका उपहारहरू पठाउने दिनको रूपमा मान्छन् ।

This is why the rural Jews, who live in the villages, observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting. It is a holiday for sending gifts to one another.

20 मोर्दकैले यी कुराहरूका विवरण गरे, अनि राजा अहासूरसका टाढा र नजिकका सबै प्रान्तमा भएका सबै यहूदीलाई चिट्ठीहरू पठाए,

Mordecai recorded these events and sent letters to all the Jews in all the provinces of King Xerxes, both near and far,

21 जसमा हरेक वर्ष अदार महिनाको चौधौँ र पन्ध्रौ दिनलाई तिनीहरूले अनिवार्य मान्‍नुपर्ने गराए ।

to establish among them an annual celebration on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar

22 यी दिनमा नै यहूदीहरूले आफ्‍ना शत्रुहरूबाट छुटकारा पाए, र यही महिनामा नै तिनीहरूको दुःख आनन्दमा र शोक उत्सवमा परिणत भएको थियो । ति दिनलाई तिनीहरूले चाड र हर्षका दिनको रूपमा मनाउनुपर्ने अनि एक-अर्कालाई र गरिबहरूलाई खनेकुरा उपहार पठाउनुपर्ने भनी स्‍थापित गरियो ।

as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.

23 त्यसैले मोर्दकैले तिनीहरूलाई जे लेखेका थिए त्‍यो गरेर यहूदीहरूले थालनी गरेका उत्सवलाई तिनीहरूले निरन्तरता दिए ।

So the Jews agreed to continue the custom they had started, as Mordecai had written to them.

24 त्यस बेला सारा यहूदीका शत्रु अगागी हम्मदाताको छोरा हामानले, यहूदीहरूलाई नष्‍ट गर्न तिनीहरूको विरुद्धमा षड्यन्त्र रचेको थियो, र तिनीहरूलाई थिचोमिचो गर्न र नाश पार्न उसले ‘पुर’ अर्थात् चिट्ठा हाल्‍यो ।

For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the Pur (that is, the lot) to crush and destroy them.

25 तर जब त्यो कुरो राजाको सामु पुग्यो, तब यहूदीहरूको विरुद्धमा हामानले रचेको दुष्‍ट योजना त्यसकै थाप्लोमा परोस् अनि ऊ र उसका छोराहरूलाई फाँसीको काठमा झुण्ड्याइयोस् भनी राजाले चिट्ठीहरू लेखेर आदेश दिए ।

But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should come back upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

26 त्यसकारण तिनीहरूले यी दिनलाई “पूरीम” भने जुन “पूर” नामबाट आएको थियो । यस पत्रमा लेखिएको र तिनीहरूले देखेका र तिनीहरूमाथि आइपरेका हरेक कुराको कारणले गर्दा,

Therefore these days are called Purim, from the word Pur. Because of all the instructions in this letter, and because of all they had seen and experienced,

27 यहूदीहरूले नयाँ चलन र कर्तव्यलाई स्वीकार गरे । यो चलन तिनीहरू, तिनीहरूका सन्तानहरू र तिनीहरूसँग मिल्ने हरेकको लागि थियो । हरेक वर्ष तिनीहरूले यी दुई दिनको उत्सव मनाउनुपर्ने भयो । हरेक वर्ष उही समयमा तिनीहरूले विशेष तवरले यो चाड मान्‍नुपर्ने भयो ।

the Jews bound themselves to establish the custom that they and their descendants and all who join them should not fail to celebrate these two days at the appointed time each and every year, according to their regulation.

28 हरेक पुस्ता, हरेक परिवार, हरेक प्रान्त र हरेक सहरमा यी दिनमा उत्सव मनाउनुपर्ने र पालन गर्नुपर्ने भयो । पूरीमका यी दिनहरूलाई यहूदीहरूले कहिल्यै नबिर्सून् भनेर तिनीहरू र तिनका सन्तानहरूले विश्‍वस्ततासाथ यो उत्सव मान्‍न कहिल्यै पनि छोड्‍दैनन् ।

These days should be remembered and celebrated by every generation, family, province, and city, so that these days of Purim should not fail to be observed among the Jews, nor should the memory of them fade from their descendants.

29 अबीहेलकी छोरी रानी एस्तर र यहूदी मोर्दकैले पुरा अधिकारसाथ लेखे र पूरीमको बारेमा यो दोस्रो चिट्ठीले पुष्‍टि गरे ।

So Queen Esther daughter of Abihail, along with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter concerning Purim.

30 यहूदीहरूको सुरक्षा र सत्यताको कामना गर्दै चिट्ठीहरू अहासूरसका राज्यका एक सय सत्ताइसवटै प्रान्तका सबै यहूदीहरूकहाँ पठाइए ।

And Mordecai sent letters with words of peace and truth to all the Jews in the 127 provinces of the kingdom of Xerxes,

31 यहूदी मोर्दकै र रानी एस्तरले यहूदीहरूलाई आज्ञा दिएझैँ तिनीहरूको तोकिएको समयमा पूरीमका यी दिन मान्‍न चिट्ठीहरूले निश्‍चयता दिए । यहूदीहरूले उपवास र विलापको समयलाई स्वीकार गरेझैँ तिनीहरूले आफू र आफ्ना सन्तानहरूका लागि यस कर्तव्यलाई पनि स्वीकार गरे ।

in order to confirm these days of Purim at their appointed time, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established them and had committed themselves and their descendants to the times of fasting and lamentation.

32 एस्तरको आज्ञाले पूरीमको सम्बन्धमा यी नियमहरूलाई पक्‍का गर्‍यो, र यसलाई पुस्तकमा लेखियो ।

So Esther’s decree confirmed these regulations about Purim, which were written into the record.