Книга Есфири 9
1 Во вторыйнадесять месяц, иже есть Адар, в третийнадесять день месяца приидоша писания от царя.
Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the month, when the king’s commandment and his decree came near to be put in execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to conquer them, (but it turned out that the opposite happened, that the Jews conquered those who hated them),
2 В той же день погибоша супостаты Иудеев: ни един бо сопротивися им бояся их.
the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, to lay hands on those who wanted to harm them. No one could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen on all the people.
3 Началствующии бо странам и властителие и царстии книгочия почитаху Иудей:
All the princes of the provinces, the local governors, the governors, and those who did the king’s business helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them.
4 страх бо Мардохеев належаше на них.
For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces, for the man Mordecai grew greater and greater.
5 Приложися бо повеление царево именоватися ему по всему царствию.
The Jews struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they wanted to those who hated them.
6 И в Сусех граде избиша Иудее пять сот мужей:
In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men.
7 Фарсана, нестанна и Делфона, и Фасгана
They killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,
8 и Фардафана, и Вареа и Сарвакана,
Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
9 и Мармасима и Руфеа, и Арсеа и Завуфефама,
Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha,
10 десять сынов Амана Амадафуева Вугеанина врага Иудеом, иже от Фармафеа, и разграбиша в той день (имения их):
the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy, but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.
11 и сказаша число избиенных царю в Сусех граде.
On that day, the number of those who were slain in the citadel of Susa was brought before the king.
12 И рече царь ко Есфири: избиша Иудее в Сусе граде пять сот мужей, по окрестным же странам колико, мниши, погубиша? И чесого еще просиши, и будет ти?
The king said to Esther the queen, “The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in the citadel of Susa, including the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your further request? It shall be done.”
13 И рече Есфирь ко царю: да дастся такожде Иудеом творити заутра, яко да повесят десять сынов Амановых.
Then Esther said, “If it pleases the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Susa to do tomorrow also according to today’s decree, and let Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”
14 И повеле царь тако быти, и попусти Иудеом вне града повесити телеса сынов Амановых.
The king commanded this to be done. A decree was given out in Susa; and they hanged Haman’s ten sons.
15 И собрашася Иудее, иже в Сусех, в четвертыйнадесять деень Адара, и избиша мужей триста, и ничтоже разграбиша.
The Jews who were in Susa gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed three hundred men in Susa; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.
16 Прочии же Иудее, иже во царствии, собрашася и себе помогаху и почиша от браней: избиша бо от них пятьнадесять тысящ в третийнадесять Адара, и ничтоже расхитиша.
The other Jews who were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together, defended their lives, had rest from their enemies, and killed seventy-five thousand of those who hated them; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.
17 И почиша в четвертыйнадесять день тогожде месяца и провождаху той день упокоения с радостию и веселием.
This was done on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of that month they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
18 Иудее же в Сусех граде собрашася и в четвертыйнадесять почиша: проводиша же и пятыйнадесять с радостию и веселием.
But the Jews who were in Susa assembled together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth days of the month; and on the fifteenth day of that month, they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
19 Сего ради Иудее разсеяннии во всяцей стране внешней провождают четвертыйнадесять день Адара благ с веселием, посылающе части кийждо ближнему: живущий же в митрополиях и в пятыйнадесять день Адара веселия благий провождают, посылающе части ближним.
Therefore the Judeans of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, a holiday, and a day of sending presents of food to one another.
20 Написа же Мардохей словеса сия в книгу и посла Иудеом, елицы беша в царствии Артаксерксове, близ и далече сущым,
Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, both near and far,
21 уставити дни сия благи, еже провождати четвертыйнадесять и пятыйнадесять день Адара:
to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month Adar yearly,
22 в сих бо днех почиша Иудее от враг своих: и месяц Адар, иже обратися им от плача в радость и от болезни во благий день, провождати весь во благих днех радости и веселия, посылающе части ко другом и нищым.
as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy.
23 И прияша Иудее, якоже написа им Мардохей:
The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them,
24 како Аман Амадафуев Македонянин ратоваше Иудеев, и како изнесе суд и жребий, еже погубити их,
because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast “Pur”, that is the lot, to consume them and to destroy them;
25 и яко вниде ко царю, глаголя, да повесит Мардохеа: елика нача наводити на Иудеи злая, на него быша, и повешен бысть сам и чада его.
but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked plan, which he had planned against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
26 Сего ради нарекошася дние сии Фурим ради жребий, зане диалектом их жребии нарицаются фурим, ради словес епистолии сея, и елика пострадаша сих ради, и елика им приключишася.
Therefore they called these days “Purim”, from the word “Pur.” Therefore because of all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and that which had come to them,
27 Устави убо, и тако прияша Иудее на себе и на семя свое и на ириложившихся к ним, ниже иначе да употребляют: дние же сии памяти совершаеми по роду и роду, и граду и отечеству и стране.
the Jews established and imposed on themselves, on their descendants, and on all those who joined themselves to them, so that it should not fail that they would keep these two days according to what was written and according to its appointed time every year;
28 Дние же сии Фурим да провождают во всякое лето, и память да не оскудеет от родов.
and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor their memory perish from their offspring.
29 И написа Есфирь царица дщи Аминадавля и Мардохей Иудеанин, елика сотвориша во утверждение епистолии о днех Фурим.
Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew wrote with all authority to confirm this second letter of Purim.
He sent letters to all the Jews in the hundred twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus with words of peace and truth,
31 И Мардохей и Есфирь царица устависта себе сами, и тогда устависта в посте своем совет свой.
to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had decreed, and as they had imposed upon themselves and their descendants in the matter of the fastings and their mourning.
32 И Есфирь слово постави во веки, и написано бысть в память.
The commandment of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.
