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 ।

Now in the twelfth month (that is the month of Adar), on the thirteenth day, when the king’s command and his decree was about to put into execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, then the tables were turned so that the Jews had the mastery over 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 ।

The Jews gathered together in the cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, to attack anyone who tried to harm them. No one could withstand them, for the fear of them had fallen on all the peoples.

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

All the princes of the provinces and the satraps and the governors and they who attended to the king’s business, helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them.

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

For Mordecai was great in the king’s palace, and as his power increased his fame spread throughout all the provinces.

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 and, with slaughter and destruction, they did what they wanted to those who hated them.

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

In Susa the capital the Jews killed five hundred people.

7 तिनीहरूले पर्शन्‍दाता, दल्‍फोन, अस्‍पाता,

They killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,

8 पोराता, अदलिया, अरीदाता,

Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,

9 पर्मशता, अरीशै, अरीदै र बैजाता,

Parmashta, Arisia, 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 the son of Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy; but they did not take any plunder.

11 त्यो दिन शूशनको किल्लामा मारिएकाहरूको सङ्ख्याको विवरण राजालाई दिइयो ।

On that day the number of those who were slain in Susa was brought before 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 ।”

and the king said to Queen Esther, ‘The Jews have slain five hundred people in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman. What then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is your petition? It will be granted to you. What is your request? It will be done.’

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 the king,’ Esther said, ‘let it be granted to the Jews who are in Susa to do tomorrow also according to this day’s decree. Let 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 ।

And the king commanded it to be done. A decree was given out in Susa and they hung the bodies of Haman’s ten sons on the gallows.

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 ।

The Jews who were in Susa gathered themselves together again on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar. They killed three hundred people in Susa. But they did not take any 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 ।

And the other Jews who were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together and fought for their lives and overcame their enemies. They killed seventy-five thousand who hated them. But they did not take any 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 on the thirteenth day of Adar. On the fourteenth day of the month Adar the Jews rested and made it a day of feasting and rejoicing.

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 ।

(But the Jews in Susa gathered on both the thirteenth and fourteenth day – and rested on the fifteenth day of the same month and made it a day of feasting and rejoicing.)

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 Jews who live in the country villages keep the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of rejoicing and feasting and a holiday, and a day in which they send gifts of food to each other.

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

Mordecai had these things recorded. He sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, both near and far.

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

He told them to keep the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and also the fifteenth day every year,

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 had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned from sorrow to gladness and from mourning into a feast day. They should make them days of feasting and gladness and of sending gifts of food to each other and of gifts to the poor.

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

So what the Jews had begun to do they adopted as a custom, just 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 the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted to destroy them. He had cast “Pur”, that is the lot, intending to consume them and to 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 the matter came before the king, he gave written orders that his wicked plot, which he had planned against the Jews, should come 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,

This is why these days are called Purim, after the word Pur. Therefore because of all the words of this letter, as well as all they had seen, and all they had 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 established and made it a custom for them, for their descendants, and for all who should join them, so that it might not be repealed, that they should continue to observe these two days as feasts each 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 ।

and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city. And these days of Purim should not pass away from among the Jews nor the remembrance of them disappear among their descendants.

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

Queen Esther, the daughter of Abihail, gave Mordecai the Jew all authority in writing to confirm this second letter of Purim.

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

He sent letters to all the Jews, to the hundred and twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, wishing them peace and security,

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 ।

to confirm these days of Purim in their proper times, to be observed as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had directed and as the Jews had proscribed for themselves and their descendants, in the matter of the fastings and their cry of lamentation.

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

And the commands of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the records.