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 order and decree were to be carried out. That day the enemies of the Jews had thought they would crush them, but the exact opposite happened—the Jews crushed their enemies.
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 ।
The Jews gathered in their cities throughout the provinces of King Xerxes to attack those who wanted to destroy them. Nobody could oppose them, because all the other people were afraid of them.
3 सबै प्रान्तका अधिकारीहरू, प्रान्तीय गभर्नरहरू, सथानीय गभर्नरहरू र राजाका प्रशासकहरूले यहूदीहरूलाई मदत गरे किनकि तिनीहरूमाथि मोर्दकैको डर परेको थियो ।
All the officials of the provinces, the chief officers, the governors, and the king's officials helped the Jews, because they were afraid of Mordecai.
4 मोर्दकै राजदरबारमा महान् मानिस थिए, अनि तिनको ख्याति सबै प्रान्तभरि फैलियो किनकि यी मानिस मोर्दकै झनझन महान् बन्दै थिए ।
Mordecai had a great deal of power in the royal palace, and his reputation spread throughout the provinces as his power increased.
5 यहूदीहरूले आफ्ना शत्रुहरूलाई तरवारले आक्रमण गरेर मारे र विनाश गरे अनि आफूलाई घृणा गर्नेहरूलाई आफ्नो इच्छाअनुसार गरे ।
The Jews attacked their enemies with swords, killing and destroying them, and they did whatever they wanted to their enemies.
6 शूशनको किल्लामा मात्रै यहूदीहरूले पाँच सय जना मानिसलाई मारेर नष्ट पारे ।
In the fortress of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men.
7 तिनीहरूले पर्शन्दाता, दल्फोन, अस्पाता,
This included 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 ।
the ten sons of Haman, son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, but they did not take their possessions.
11 त्यो दिन शूशनको किल्लामा मारिएकाहरूको सङ्ख्याको विवरण राजालाई दिइयो ।
The same day, when the number of those killed in the fortress 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 ।”
he said to Queen Esther, “The Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men in the fortress of Susa, including Haman's ten sons. Imagine what they've done in the rest of the royal provinces! Now what is it you'd like to ask? It will be given to you. What more do you want? It will be granted.”
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 ।”
“If it please Your Majesty,” Esther replied, “allow the Jews in Susa be allowed to do the same tomorrow as they did today, following the decree. Also, let the ten sons of Haman be impaled on poles.”
14 त्यसैले राजाले त्यसै गरियोस् भनी आज्ञा दिए । शूशनमा एउटा आदेश निकालियो, र तिनीहरूले हामानका दसै जना छोरालाई झुण्ड्याए ।
The king ordered this to be done. A decree was issued in Susa, and they impaled the bodies of Haman's ten sons.
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 gathered together again and killed three hundred men there, but again they did not take their possessions.
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 other Jews in the king's provinces also gathered to defend themselves and get rid of their enemies. They killed 75,000 who hated them, but did not touch their possessions.
17 यो अदार महिनाको तेह्रौँ दिनमा भएको थियो । चौधौँ दिनमा तिनीहरूले विश्राम लिए, र त्यस दिनलाई एउटा चाड र हर्षको दिन बनाए ।
This happened on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested and made it a day of feasting and celebration.
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 ।
However, the Jews in Susa had gathered to fight on the thirteenth and the fourteenth days of the month. So they rested on the fifteenth day, and made that a day of feasting and celebration.
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 ।
To this day rural Jews, living in the villages, observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of celebration and feasting, a holiday when they send 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 throughout the provinces ruled by King Xerxes, near and far,
21 जसमा हरेक वर्ष अदार महिनाको चौधौँ र पन्ध्रौ दिनलाई तिनीहरूले अनिवार्य मान्नुपर्ने गराए ।
requiring them to celebrate every year 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 time when the Jews rested from their victory over their enemies, and as the month when their sadness was turned into joy and their mourning into a time of celebration. He wrote them to observe the days as days of feasting and joy and giving gifts of food to one another and presents to the poor.
23 त्यसैले मोर्दकैले तिनीहरूलाई जे लेखेका थिए त्यो गरेर यहूदीहरूले थालनी गरेका उत्सवलाई तिनीहरूले निरन्तरता दिए ।
The Jews agreed to continue what they had already started doing, following what 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 to destroy the Jews, and had cast “pur” (meaning a “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 to the king's attention, he sent out letters ordering that the evil scheme which Haman had planned against the Jews should rebound on him, and that he and his sons should be impaled on poles.
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,
(That's why these days are called Purim, from the word Pur.) As a result of all the instructions in Mordecai's letter, and what they'd seen, and what had happened to them,
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 committed themselves to adopt the practice that they and their descendants and all who join them should not forget to celebrate these two days as set down, and at the right time every year.
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 were to be remembered and celebrated by every generation, family, province, and city, so that these days of Purim would always be observed among the Jews, and they would not be forgotten by their descendants.
29 अबीहेलकी छोरी रानी एस्तर र यहूदी मोर्दकैले पुरा अधिकारसाथ लेखे र पूरीमको बारेमा यो दोस्रो चिट्ठीले पुष्टि गरे ।
Then Queen Esther, the daughter of Abihail, wrote a letter, along with Mordecai the Jew, giving in her letter full authority to Mordecai's letter about Purim.
30 यहूदीहरूको सुरक्षा र सत्यताको कामना गर्दै चिट्ठीहरू अहासूरसका राज्यका एक सय सत्ताइसवटै प्रान्तका सबै यहूदीहरूकहाँ पठाइए ।
Letters expressing peace and reassurance were also sent all the Jews in the 127 provinces of the empire of King 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 ।
They established these days of Purim at their given time as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had ordered, committing themselves and their descendants to the times of fasting and mourning.
32 एस्तरको आज्ञाले पूरीमको सम्बन्धमा यी नियमहरूलाई पक्का गर्यो, र यसलाई पुस्तकमा लेखियो ।
In this way Esther's decree confirmed these practices regarding Purim, which were entered in the official record.
