Книга Есфири 3
1 И по сих прослави царь Артаксеркс Амана сына Амадафуина Вугеанина и вознесе его, и председяше вышше всех другов его:
After these events King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him to a place above all the officials who were with him.
2 и вси, иже во дворе (цареве), покланяхуся Аману: сице бо повеле царь творити. Мардохей же не кланяшеся ему.
All the king’s courtiers who were in the king’s gate used to bow down before Haman, for so the king had commanded, but Mordecai did not bow down nor prostrate himself.
3 И глаголаша сущии во дворе цареве Мардохею: мардохее, чесо ради не слушаеши глаголемых от царя?
Then the king’s courtiers, who were in the king’s gate, said to Mordecai, ‘Why do you disobey the king’s command?’
4 По вся же дни глаголаху ему, и не послушаше их. И возвестиша Аману, яко Мардохей сопротивляется повелению цареву, и поведа им Мардохей, яко Иудеанин есть.
When they had spoken to him day after day without his listening to them, they informed Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s acts would be tolerated, for he had told them that he was a Jew.
5 И уведав Аман, яко не кланяется ему Мардохеи, разгневася зело
When Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow down nor prostrate himself before him, he was furious.
6 и умысли погубити вся Иудеи, иже в царстве Артаксерксове:
But it seemed to him beneath his dignity to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him who Mordecai’s people were. Instead Haman sought to destroy all the people of Mordecai, all the Jews throughout the kingdom of Ahasuerus.
7 и сотвори совет в лето второенадесять царства Артаксерксова, и меташе жребия день от дне и месяц от месяца, яко погубити во един день род Мардохеев: и паде жребий на четвертыйнадесять день месяца, иже есть Адар.
In the first month (the month of Nisan) in the twelfth year of the reign of King Ahasuerus, Haman had “pur” (which means “lot”) cast before him to determine the best day and best month for his actions. The lot fell on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month – the month of Adar.
8 И рече (Аман) ко царю Артаксерксу, глаголя: есть язык разсеянный во языцех во всем царстве твоем: законы же их странни паче всех язык, и законов царских не слушают, и не пользует царю оставити их:
So Haman said to King Ahasuerus, ‘There is a certain people scattered among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, whose laws differ from those of every other and who do not keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not right for the king to tolerate them.
9 и аще годе есть цареви, да повелит погубити я: аз же запишу в сокровище царево десять тысящ талант сребра.
If it seems best to the king, let an order be given to destroy them, and I will pay ten thousand silver coins into the royal treasury.’
10 И снем царь перстень (с руки своея), даде в руце Аману, да запечатает писания написанная на Иудей.
So the king took off his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.
11 И рече царь Аману: сребро убо имей ты себе, людем же твори, якоже хощеши.
‘The money is yours,’ the king said to Haman, ‘and the people also to do with them as you wish.’
12 И призвани быша писцы царевы в третийнадесять день месяца перваго, и написаша, якоже повеле Аман, к воеводам и началником по всем странам, от Индийския области даже и до Ефиопии, сто двадесяти седми странам, началствующым над языки по их языку, именем Артаксеркса царя.
And so, on the thirteenth day of the first month, the king’s secretaries were summoned and as Haman instructed an edict was issued to the king’s satraps and provincial governors and the rulers of each of the peoples in their own script and their own language. The edict was written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with his ring.
13 И посла с писмоносцы писания в царство Артаксерксово, да побиют род Жидовский в день един месяца вторагонадесять, иже есть Адар, и да расхитят имения их.
Dispatches were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces, saying: Destroy, kill, put an end to all the Jews, young and old, little children and women, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, and plunder their possessions.
14 Списания же епистолии посылахуся по странам, и повелено бысть всем языком готовым быти в нареченный день.
A copy of the edict was to be published as a decree in every province – publicly displayed so that everyone might be ready for that day.
15 Приспе же дело и в Сусы: и царь убо и Аман пирующа наслаждастася, град же (Сусы) мятяшеся.
By command of the king the couriers raced off, and the edict was published in Susa itself. Then the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was in turmoil.
