Книга Есфири 6
1 Господь же отя сон от царя в нощи оней. И повеле рабу своему принести книги памятныя дний прочитати ему:
On that night could not the king sleep; and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles, and they were read before the king.
2 и обрете писания написанная о Мардохеи, како поведа царю о двою евнуху царскую, внегда стрещи има, и умыслиста убити (царя) Артаксеркса.
And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s chamberlains, of those that kept the threshold, who had sought to lay hands on the king Ahasuerus.
3 И рече царь: кую славу или благодать сотворихом Мардохею? И рекоша отроцы царевы: ничтоже сотворил еси ему?
And the king said, What honor and dignity hath been bestowed on Mordecai for this? Then said the king’s servants that ministered unto him, There is nothing done for him.
4 Вопрошающу же царю о благодеянии Мардохеове, се, Аман прииде во двор, и рече царь: кто есть во дворе? Аман же прииде рещи цареви, да повесит Мардохеа на древе, еже уготова.
And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king’s house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
5 И рекоша отроцы царевы: се, Аман стоит во дворе. И рече царь: призовите его.
And the king’s servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the king said, Let him come in.
6 И рече царь Аману: что сотворю мужу, егоже аз хощу прославити? Рече же в себе Аман: кого хощет царь прославити, разве мене?
So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honor? Now Haman said in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honor more than to myself?
7 Рече же царю: мужа, егоже хощет царь прославити,
And Haman said unto the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honor,
8 да принесут отроцы царевы одежду виссонную, еюже царь облачается, и коня, на немже царь ездит,
let royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and on the head of which a crown royal is set:
9 и да дастся единому от другов царевых славных, и да облечет мужа, егоже царь любит, и да посадит его на коня и проповесть на улицах града, глаголя: тако будет всякому человеку, егоже царь прославит.
and let the apparel and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may array the man therewith whom the king delighteth to honor, and cause him to ride on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honor.
10 И рече царь Аману: добре рекл еси: тако сотвори Мардохею Иудеанину, угодно служащему во дворе (нашем), и да не изменится слово твое от сих, яже рекл еси.
Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king’s gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken.
11 И взя Аман одежду и коня, и облече Мардохеа, и возведе его на коня, и пройде по улицам града, и проповедаше (пред ним), глаголя: сице будет всякому человеку, егоже хощет цар прославити.
Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and caused him to ride through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honor.
12 И возвратися Мардохеи во двор (царев): Аман же иде в дом свой скорбя преклонив главу.
And Mordecai came again to the king’s gate. But Haman hasted to his house, mourning and having his head covered.
13 И сказа Аман случившаяся ему Зосаре жене своей и другом своим. И реша ему друзие его и жена: аще от племене Иудейскаго Мардохей, начал еси смирятися пред ним, падая падеши, и не возможеши ему отмстити, яко Бог живый есть с ним.
And Haman recounted unto Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai, before whom thou hast begun to fall, be of the seed of the Jews, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.
14 И еще глаголющым им, приидоша евнуси, спешно зовуще Амана на пир, егоже уготова Есфирь.
While they were yet talking with him, came the king’s chamberlains, and hasted to bring Haman unto the banquet that Esther had prepared.
