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 couldn’t sleep. He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read to 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 written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, who were doorkeepers, who had tried 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?
The king said, “What honour and dignity has been given to Mordecai for this?” Then the king’s servants who attended him said, “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 come into 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.
The king’s servants said to him, “Behold, Haman stands in the court.” 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. The king said to him, “What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honour?” Now Haman said in his heart, “Who would the king delight to honour more than myself?”
7 Рече же царю: мужа, егоже хощет царь прославити,
Haman said to the king, “For the man whom the king delights to honour,
8 да принесут отроцы царевы одежду виссонную, еюже царь облачается, и коня, на немже царь ездит,
let royal clothing be brought which the king uses to wear, and the horse that the king rides on, and on the head of which a royal crown 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.
Let the clothing and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may array the man whom the king delights to honour with them, and have him ride on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him, ‘Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honour!’”
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, “Hurry and take the clothing and the horse, as you have said, and do this for Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king’s gate. Let nothing fail of all that you have 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 Haman took the clothing and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and had him ride through the city square, and proclaimed before him, “Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honour!”
12 И возвратися Мардохеи во двор (царев): Аман же иде в дом свой скорбя преклонив главу.
Mordecai came back to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried 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.
Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and 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 begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will 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, the king’s eunuchs came, and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
