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فِي ذَلِكَ ٱلْيَوْمِ أَعْطَى ٱلْمَلِكُ أَحَشْوِيرُوشُ لِأَسْتِيرَ ٱلْمَلِكَةِ بَيْتَ هَامَانَ عَدُوِّ ٱلْيَهُودِ. وَأَتَى مُرْدَخَايُ إِلَى أَمَامِ ٱلْمَلِكِ لِأَنَّ أَسْتِيرَ أَخْبَرَتْهُ بِمَا هُوَ لَهَا. ١ 1
At that time King Ahasuerus gave the property of Haman the Jews’ enemy to Queen Esther. Mordecai was made one of the king’s personal advisers, for Esther had disclosed his relationship to her.
وَنَزَعَ ٱلْمَلِكُ خَاتَمَهُ ٱلَّذِي أَخَذَهُ مِنْ هَامَانَ وَأَعْطَاهُ لِمُرْدَخَايَ. وَأَقَامَتْ أَسْتِيرُ مُرْدَخَايَ عَلَى بَيْتِ هَامَانَ. ٢ 2
The king also drew off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman. He gave it to Mordecai, and Esther placed Mordecai in charge of Haman’s property.
ثُمَّ عَادَتْ أَسْتِيرُ وَتَكَلَّمَتْ أَمَامَ ٱلْمَلِكِ وَسَقَطَتْ عِنْدَ رِجْلَيْهِ وَبَكَتْ وَتَضَرَّعَتْ إِلَيْهِ أَنْ يُزِيلَ شَرَّ هَامَانَ ٱلْأَجَاجِيِّ وَتَدْبِيرَهُ ٱلَّذِي دَبَّرَهُ عَلَى ٱلْيَهُودِ. ٣ 3
Then Esther sought another audience with the king and fell at his feet and with tears begged him to avert the evil planned by Haman the Agagite and to frustrate his designs against the Jews.
فَمَدَّ ٱلْمَلِكُ لِأَسْتِيرَ قَضِيبَ ٱلذَّهَبِ، فَقَامَتْ أَسْتِيرُ وَوَقَفَتْ أَمَامَ ٱلْمَلِكِ ٤ 4
The king held out to her the golden sceptre, and she arose and stood before him.
وَقَالَتْ: «إِذَا حَسُنَ عِنْدَ ٱلْمَلِكِ، وَإِنْ كُنْتُ قَدْ وَجَدْتُ نِعْمَةً أَمَامَهُ وَٱسْتَقَامَ ٱلْأَمْرُ أَمَامَ ٱلْمَلِكِ وَحَسُنْتُ أَنَا لَدَيْهِ، فَلْيُكْتَبْ لِكَيْ تُرَدَّ كِتَابَاتُ تَدْبِيرِ هَامَانَ بْنِ هَمَدَاثَا ٱلْأَجَاجِيِّ ٱلَّتِي كَتَبَهَا لِإِبَادَةِ ٱلْيَهُودِ ٱلَّذِينَ فِي كُلِّ بِلَادِ ٱلْمَلِكِ. ٥ 5
‘If it seems best to the king,’ she said, ‘and if I have won his favour and he thinks it right, and if I please him, let written orders be given to revoke the dispatches devised by Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote ordering the destruction of the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces.
لِأَنَّنِي كَيْفَ أَسْتَطِيعُ أَنْ أَرَى ٱلشَّرَّ ٱلَّذِي يُصِيبُ شَعْبِي؟ وَكَيْفَ أَسْتَطِيعُ أَنْ أَرَى هَلَاكَ جِنْسِي؟». ٦ 6
For how can I bear to look upon the evil that will come to my people? How can I bear to see their destruction?’
فَقَالَ ٱلْمَلِكُ أَحَشْوِيرُوشُ لِأَسْتِيرَ ٱلْمَلِكَةِ وَمُرْدَخَايَ ٱلْيَهُودِيِّ: «هُوَذَا قَدْ أَعْطَيْتُ بَيْتَ هَامَانَ لِأَسْتِيرَ، أَمَّا هُوَ فَقَدْ صَلَبُوهُ عَلَى ٱلْخَشَبَةِ مِنْ أَجْلِ أَنَّهُ مَدَّ يَدَهُ إِلَى ٱلْيَهُودِ. ٧ 7
Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, ‘See, I have given Esther the property of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows, because he laid hands upon the Jews.
فَٱكْتُبَا أَنْتُمَا إِلَى ٱلْيَهُودِ مَا يَحْسُنُ فِي أَعْيُنِكُمَا بِٱسْمِ ٱلْمَلِكِ، وَٱخْتُمَاهُ بِخَاتِمِ ٱلْمَلِكِ، لِأَنَّ ٱلْكِتَابَةَ ٱلَّتِي تُكْتَبُ بِٱسْمِ ٱلْمَلِكِ وَتُخْتَمُ بِخَاتِمِهِ لَا تُرَدُّ». ٨ 8
Now you write on behalf of the Jews, as seems best to you, in the king’s name and seal it with the king’s signet ring. For a document that is written in the king’s name and sealed with the king’s signet ring cannot be revoked.’
فَدُعِيَ كُتَّابُ ٱلْمَلِكِ فِي ذَلِكَ ٱلْوَقْتِ فِي ٱلشَّهْرِ ٱلثَّالِثِ، أَيْ شَهْرِ سِيوَانَ، فِي ٱلثَّالِثِ وَٱلْعِشْرِينَ مِنْهُ، وَكُتِبَ حَسَبَ كُلِّ مَا أَمَرَ بِهِ مُرْدَخَايُ إِلَى ٱلْيَهُودِ وَإِلَى ٱلْمَرَازِبَةِ وَٱلْوُلَاةِ وَرُؤَسَاءِ ٱلْبُلْدَانِ ٱلَّتِي مِنَ ٱلْهِنْدِ إِلَى كُوشَ، مِئَةٍ وَسَبْعٍ وَعِشْرِينَ كُورَةً، إِلَى كُلِّ كُورَةٍ بِكِتَابَتِهَا وَكُلِّ شَعْبٍ بِلِسَانِهِ، وَإِلَى ٱلْيَهُودِ بِكِتَابَتِهِمْ وَلِسَانِهِمْ. ٩ 9
On the twenty-third day of the third month (that is the month of Sivan), the king’s secretaries were summoned and as Mordecai instructed an edict was issued to the Jews, to the satraps and provincial governors and the rulers of each of the one hundred twenty-seven provinces from India to Ethiopia in their own script and their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.
فَكَتَبَ بِٱسْمِ ٱلْمَلِكِ أَحَشْوِيرُوشَ وَخَتَمَ بِخَاتِمِ ٱلْمَلِكِ، وَأَرْسَلَ رَسَائِلَ بِأَيْدِي بَرِيدِ ٱلْخَيْلِ رُكَّابِ ٱلْجِيَادِ وَٱلْبِغَالِ بَنِي الرَّمَكِ، ١٠ 10
Mordecai wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus. He sealed it with the king’s signet ring. Dispatches were sent by mounted couriers who rode the swift, noble steeds, bred of the royal studs.
ٱلَّتِي بِهَا أَعْطَى ٱلْمَلِكُ ٱلْيَهُودَ فِي مَدِينَةٍ فَمَدِينَةٍ أَنْ يَجْتَمِعُوا وَيَقِفُوا لِأَجْلِ أَنْفُسِهِمْ، وَيُهْلِكُوا وَيَقْتُلُوا وَيُبِيدُوا قُوَّةَ كُلِّ شَعْبٍ وَكُورَةٍ تُضَادُّهُمْ حَتَّى ٱلْأَطْفَالَ وَٱلنِّسَاءَ، وَأَنْ يَسْلُبُوا غَنِيمَتَهُمْ، ١١ 11
In this way the king permitted the Jews who were in every city to gather together and make a stand for their life, to destroy, to kill, and annihilate all the armed forces of any people or province that might be hostile to them, including their children and women, and to take their goods as plunder
فِي يَوْمٍ وَاحِدٍ فِي كُلِّ كُوَرِ ٱلْمَلِكِ أَحَشْوِيرُوشَ، فِي ٱلثَّالِثَ عَشَرَ مِنَ ٱلشَّهْرِ ٱلثَّانِي عَشَرَ، أَيْ شَهْرِ أَذَارَ. ١٢ 12
throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus on that thirteenth day of the twelfth month (which is called Adar).
صُورَةُ ٱلْكِتَابَةِ ٱلْمُعْطَاةِ سُنَّةً فِي كُلِّ ٱلْبُلْدَانِ، أُشْهِرَتْ عَلَى جَمِيعِ ٱلشُّعُوبِ أَنْ يَكُونَ ٱلْيَهُودُ مُسْتَعِدِّينَ لِهَذَا ٱلْيَوْمِ لِيَنْتَقِمُوا مِنْ أَعْدَائِهِمْ. ١٣ 13
A copy of the edict was to be published as a decree in every province – publicly displayed so that the Jews might be ready for that day and avenge themselves.
فَخَرَجَ ٱلبَرِيدُ رُكَّابُ ٱلْجِيَادِ وَٱلْبِغَالِ وَأَمْرُ ٱلْمَلِكِ يَحِثُّهُمْ وَيُعَجِّلُهُمْ، وَأُعْطِيَ ٱلْأَمْرُ فِي شُوشَنَ ٱلْقَصْرِ. ١٤ 14
So the couriers who rode the swift, noble steeds went out, hastened and impelled by the king’s commands! Meantime the decree had been given out in the royal palace at Susa;
وَخَرَجَ مُرْدَخَايُ مِنْ أَمَامِ ٱلْمَلِكِ بِلِبَاسٍ مَلِكِيٍّ أَسْمَانْجُونِيٍّ وَأَبْيَضَ، وَتَاجٌ عَظِيمٌ مِنْ ذَهَبٍ، وَحُلَّةٌ مِنْ بَزٍّ وَأُرْجُوَانٍ. وَكَانَتْ مَدِينَةُ شُوشَنَ مُتَهَلِّلَةً وَفَرِحَةً. ١٥ 15
and Mordecai had gone out from the presence of the king in royal garments of violet and white and with a great crown of gold and with a robe of fine linen and purple. The people of Susa shouted and were glad.
وَكَانَ لِلْيَهُودِ نُورٌ وَفَرَحٌ وَبَهْجَةٌ وَكَرَامَةٌ. ١٦ 16
To the Jews there came light and gladness and joy and honour.
وَفِي كُلِّ بِلَادٍ وَمَدِينَةٍ، كُلِّ مَكَانٍ وَصَلَ إِلَيْهِ كَلَامُ ٱلْمَلِكِ وَأَمْرُهُ، كَانَ فَرَحٌ وَبَهْجَةٌ عِنْدَ ٱلْيَهُودِ وَوَلَائِمُ وَيَوْمٌ طَيِّبٌ. وَكَثِيرُونَ مِنْ شُعُوبِ ٱلْأَرْضِ تَهَوَّدُوا لِأَنَّ رُعْبَ ٱلْيَهُودِ وَقَعَ عَلَيْهِمْ. ١٧ 17
And in every province and city, wherever the king’s command and decree came, there was gladness and joy among the Jews and a holiday. Many of the peoples of the earth professed to be Jews, for fear of the Jews took possession of them.

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