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 the king was unable to sleep, so he gave orders to bring the books that recorded memorable deeds, 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.
It was found recorded how Mordecai had furnished information regarding Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king’s attendants who guarded the entrance of the palace, who had attempted to kill King Ahasuerus.
3 И рече царь: кую славу или благодать сотворихом Мардохею? И рекоша отроцы царевы: ничтоже сотворил еси ему?
“What honor and dignity have been conferred on Mordecai for this?” the king asked. When the king’s pages who waited on him replied “Nothing has been 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.
the king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the king’s house to speak to the king about hanging 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.
So the king’s pages said to him, “Haman is standing there, in the court.” The king said, “Let him enter.”
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 entered, and the king said to him, “What should be done for the man whom the king wishes to honor?” Haman said to himself, “Whom besides me could the king wish to honor?”
7 Рече же царю: мужа, егоже хощет царь прославити,
So he said to the king, “For the man whom the king wishes to honor
8 да принесут отроцы царевы одежду виссонную, еюже царь облачается, и коня, на немже царь ездит,
let a royal garment be brought, which the king has worn, and the horse on which the king has ridden and on whose head a royal diadem has been placed.
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.
Then let the garment and the horse be placed in charge of one of the king’s noble officials. Let him clothe the man whom the king wishes to honor and let him lead that man on the horse through the city square, proclaiming before him, ‘This is what is done for the man whom the king wishes 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 garment and the horse, as you have said, and do this to Mordecai the Jew, who sits in the king’s gate. Omit nothing of all you have said.”
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.
So Haman took the garment and the horse and clothed Mordecai, and made him ride through the city square and proclaimed before him, “This is what is done for the man whom the king wishes to honor.”
12 И возвратися Мардохеи во двор (царев): Аман же иде в дом свой скорбя преклонив главу.
Mordecai returned to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning, with 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.
Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and to all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, “If Mordecai before whom you have already been humiliated is of the Jewish people, you can do nothing against him but will surely fall before him.”
14 И еще глаголющым им, приидоша евнуси, спешно зовуще Амана на пир, егоже уготова Есфирь.
While they were still talking with him, the king’s attendants came and quickly took Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
