Esther 9

1 Now in the twelfth month (that is the month of Adar), on the thirteenth day, when the king’s command and his decree was about to put into execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, then the tables were turned so that the Jews had the mastery over those who hated them.

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2 The Jews gathered together in the cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, to attack anyone who tried to harm them. No one could withstand them, for the fear of them had fallen on all the peoples.

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3 All the princes of the provinces and the satraps and the governors and they who attended to the king’s business, helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them.

and all ruler [the] province and [the] satrap and [the] governor and to make: [do] [the] work which to/for king to lift: aid [obj] [the] Jew for to fall: fall dread Mordecai upon them

4 For Mordecai was great in the king’s palace, and as his power increased his fame spread throughout all the provinces.

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5 The Jews put all their enemies to the sword and, with slaughter and destruction, they did what they wanted to those who hated them.

and to smite [the] Jew in/on/with all enemy their wound sword and slaughter and destruction and to make: do in/on/with to hate them like/as acceptance their

6 In Susa the capital the Jews killed five hundred people.

and in/on/with Susa [the] palace to kill [the] Jew and to perish five hundred man

7 They killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,

and [obj] Parshandatha and [obj] Dalphon and [obj] Aspatha

8 Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,

and [obj] Poratha and [obj] Adalia and [obj] Aridatha

9 Parmashta, Arisia, Aridai, and Vaizatha,

and [obj] Parmashta and [obj] Arisai and [obj] Aridai and [obj] Vaizatha

10 the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy; but they did not take any plunder.

ten son: child Haman son: child Hammedatha to vex [the] Jew to kill and in/on/with plunder not to send: reach [obj] hand their

11 On that day the number of those who were slain in Susa was brought before the king,

in/on/with day [the] he/she/it to come (in): come number [the] to kill in/on/with Susa [the] palace to/for face: before [the] king

12 and the king said to Queen Esther, ‘The Jews have slain five hundred people in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman. What then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is your petition? It will be granted to you. What is your request? It will be done.’

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13 ‘If it please the king,’ Esther said, ‘let it be granted to the Jews who are in Susa to do tomorrow also according to this day’s decree. Let the bodies of Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.’

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14 And the king commanded it to be done. A decree was given out in Susa and they hung the bodies of Haman’s ten sons on the gallows.

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15 The Jews who were in Susa gathered themselves together again on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar. They killed three hundred people in Susa. But they did not take any plunder.

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16 And the other Jews who were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together and fought for their lives and overcame their enemies. They killed seventy-five thousand who hated them. But they did not take any plunder.

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17 This was on the thirteenth day of Adar. On the fourteenth day of the month Adar the Jews rested and made it a day of feasting and rejoicing.

in/on/with day three ten to/for month Adar and to rest in/on/with four ten in/on/with him and to make [obj] him day feast and joy

18 (But the Jews in Susa gathered on both the thirteenth and fourteenth day – and rested on the fifteenth day of the same month and made it a day of feasting and rejoicing.)

(and [the] Jew *Qk) which in/on/with Susa to gather in/on/with three ten in/on/with him and in/on/with four ten in/on/with him and to rest in/on/with five ten in/on/with him and to make [obj] him day feast and joy

19 This is why the Jews who live in the country villages keep the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of rejoicing and feasting and a holiday, and a day in which they send gifts of food to each other.

upon so [the] Jew ([the] villager *Qk) [the] to dwell in/on/with city [the] village to make: do [obj] day four ten to/for month Adar joy and feast and day pleasant and sending portion man: anyone to/for neighbor his

20 Mordecai had these things recorded. He sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, both near and far.

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21 He told them to keep the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and also the fifteenth day every year,

to/for to arise: establish upon them to/for to be to make: do [obj] day four ten to/for month Adar and [obj] day five ten in/on/with him in/on/with all year and year

22 as the days on which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned from sorrow to gladness and from mourning into a feast day. They should make them days of feasting and gladness and of sending gifts of food to each other and of gifts to the poor.

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23 So what the Jews had begun to do they adopted as a custom, just as Mordecai had written to them.

and to receive [the] Jew [obj] which to profane/begin: begin to/for to make: do and [obj] which to write Mordecai to(wards) them

24 For Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted to destroy them. He had cast “Pur”, that is the lot, intending to consume them and to destroy them.

for Haman son: child Hammedatha [the] Agagite to vex all [the] Jew to devise: devise upon [the] Jew to/for to perish them and to fall: allot Purim he/she/it [the] allotted to/for to confuse them and to/for to perish them

25 But when the matter came before the king, he gave written orders that his wicked plot, which he had planned against the Jews, should come upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

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26 This is why these days are called Purim, after the word Pur. Therefore because of all the words of this letter, as well as all they had seen, and all they had experienced,

upon so to call: call to to/for day [the] these Purim upon name [the] Purim upon so upon all word [the] letter [the] this and what? to see: see upon thus and what? to touch to(wards) them

27 the Jews established and made it a custom for them, for their descendants, and for all who should join them, so that it might not be repealed, that they should continue to observe these two days as feasts each year,

to arise: establish (and to receive *QK) [the] Jew upon them and upon seed: children their and upon all [the] to join upon them and not to pass to/for to be to make: do [obj] two [the] day [the] these like/as writing their and like/as time their in/on/with all year and year

28 and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city. And these days of Purim should not pass away from among the Jews nor the remembrance of them disappear among their descendants.

and [the] day [the] these to remember and to make: do in/on/with all generation and generation family and family province and province and city and city and day [the] Purim [the] these not to pass from midst [the] Jew and memorial their not to cease from seed: children their

29 Queen Esther, the daughter of Abihail, gave Mordecai the Jew all authority in writing to confirm this second letter of Purim.

and to write Esther [the] queen daughter Abihail and Mordecai [the] Jew [obj] all power to/for to arise: establish [obj] letter [the] Purim [the] this [the] second

30 He sent letters to all the Jews, to the hundred and twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, wishing them peace and security,

and to send: depart scroll: document to(wards) all [the] Jew to(wards) seven and twenty and hundred province royalty Ahasuerus word peace and truth: true

31 to confirm these days of Purim in their proper times, to be observed as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had directed and as the Jews had proscribed for themselves and their descendants, in the matter of the fastings and their cry of lamentation.

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32 And the commands of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the records.

and command Esther to arise: establish word: thing [the] Purim [the] these and to write in/on/with scroll: document