Esther 3
1 And after this king Artaxerxes highly honoured Aman [son] of Amadathes, the Bugaean, and exalted him, and set his seat above all his friends.
Po teh stvareh je Kralj Ahasvér povišal Hamána, Hamedátovega sina, Agágovca in ga napredoval in njegov sedež postavil nad vse prince, ki so bili z njim.
2 And all in the palace did him obeisance, for so the king had given orders to do: but Mardochaeus did not do him obeisance.
Vsi kraljevi služabniki, ki so bili pri kraljevih velikih vratih, so se priklonili in častili Hamána, kajti kralj je glede njega tako zapovedal. Mordohaj pa se ni priklonil niti ga ni častil.
3 And they in the king's palace said to Mardochaeus, Mardochaeus, why do you transgress the commands of the king?
Potem so kraljevi služabniki, ki so bili pri kraljevih velikih vratih, Mordohaju rekli: »Zakaj prestopaš kraljevo zapoved?«
4 [Thus] they spoke daily to him, but he listened not to them; so they represented to Aman that Mardochaeus resisted the commands of the king: and Mardochaeus had shown to them that he was a Jew.
Pripetilo se je torej, ko so mu dnevno govorili in jim ni prisluhnil, da so povedali Hamánu, da vidijo, ali bodo Mordohajeve zadeve obstale, kajti povedal jim je, da je bil Jud.
5 And when Aman understood that Mardochaeus did not obeisance to him, he was greatly enraged,
Ko je Hamán videl, da se Mordohaj ni priklonil niti ga ni častil, potem je bil Hamán poln besa.
6 and took counsel to destroy utterly all the Jews who were under the rule of Artaxerxes.
Zdelo se mu je v posmeh, da položi roke samo na Mordohaja, kajti pokazali so mu Mordohajevo ljudstvo. Zato je Hamán iskal, da uniči vse Jude, ki so bili po celotnem Ahasvérjevem kraljestvu, torej Mordohajevo ljudstvo.
7 And he made a decree in the twelfth year of the reign of Artaxerxes, and cast lots daily and monthly, to kill in one day the race of Mardochaeus: and the lot fell on the fourteenth [day] of the month which is Adar.
V prvem mesecu, ki je mesec nisán, v dvanajstem letu kralja Ahasvérja, so metali pur, kar je žreb, pred Hamánom iz dneva v dan in iz meseca v mesec, do dvanajstega meseca, ki je mesec adár.
8 And he spoke to king Artaxerxes, saying, There is a nation scattered amongst the nations in all your kingdom, and their laws differ from [those of] all the [other] nations; and they disobey the laws of the king; and it is not expedient for the king to let them alone.
Hamán je rekel Kralju Ahasvérju: »Tam je neko ljudstvo, razkropljeno naokoli in razpršeno med ljudstvom po vseh provincah tvojega kraljestva. Njihove postave so različne od vsega ljudstva niti se ne držijo kraljevih postav. Zatorej to ni za kraljevo korist, da jih trpi.
9 If it seem good to the king, let him make a decree to destroy them: and I will remit into the king's treasury ten thousand talents of silver.
Če to ugaja kralju, naj bo to zapisano, da bodo lahko uničeni, jaz pa bom plačal deset tisoč talentov srebra rokam tistih, ki so zadolženi za to delo, da to prinesejo v kraljeve zakladnice.«
10 And the king took off his ring, and gave it into the hands of Aman, to seal the decrees against the Jews.
Kralj je iz svoje roke snel svoj prstan ter ga dal Hamedátovemu sinu Hamánu, Agágovcu, sovražniku Judov.
11 And the king said to Aman, Keep the silver, and treat the nation as you will.
Kralj je rekel Hamánu: »Srebro ti je dano, tudi ljudstvo, da storiš z njimi, kakor se ti zdi dobro.«
12 So the king's recorders were called in the first month, on the thirteenth [day], and they wrote as Aman commanded to the captains and governors in every province, from India even to Ethiopia, to a hundred and twenty-seven provinces; and to the rulers of the nations according to their [several] languages, in the name of king Artaxerxes.
Potem so bili na trinajsti dan prvega meseca poklicani kraljevi pisarji in bilo je napisano glede na vse, kar je Hamán ukazal kraljevim poročnikom in voditeljem, ki so bili nad vsako provinco in vladarjem vsakega ljudstva vsake province, glede na njihovo pisavo in vsakemu ljudstvu glede na njihov jezik. V imenu kralja Ahasvérja je bilo napisano in zapečateno s kraljevim prstanom.
13 And [the message] was sent by posts throughout the kingdom of Artaxerxes, to destroy utterly the race of the Jews on the first day of the twelfth month, which is Adar, and to plunder their goods.
Pisma so bila po slih poslana v vse kraljeve province, da uničijo, ubijejo in pogubijo vse Jude, tako mlade kakor stare, majhne otroke in ženske, na en dan, torej na trinajsti dan dvanajstega meseca, ki je mesec adár in da si njihov dobiček vzamejo za plen.
14 And the copies of the letters were published in every province; and an order was given to all the nations to be ready against that day.
Prepis pisanja za zapoved, ki naj bo predana v vsako provinco, je bilo razglašeno vsem ljudstvom, da bodo pripravljeni za ta dan.
15 And the business was hastened, and [that] at Susa: and the king and Aman began to drink; but the city was troubled.
Sli so odšli ven, podvizani s kraljevo zapovedjo in odlok je bil izdan v palači Suze. Kralj in Hamán pa sta se usedla, da pijeta, mesto Suze pa je bilo zbegano.
