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Nadaog sang mga Judio ang Ila mga Kaaway

Karon, nag-abot na ang ika-13 nga adlaw sang ika-12 nga bulan, nga amo ang bulan sang Adar. Amo na ini ang adlaw nga himuon ang mando sang hari. Sa sini nga adlaw nagalaom ang mga kaaway sang mga Judio nga malaglag nila ang mga Judio. Pero suli ang natabo; ang mga kaaway amo ang napierdi sa mga Judio. Kay sang sina nga adlaw, nagtilipon ang mga Judio sa mga lugar nga ila ginaestaran, sa tanan nga probinsya nga sakop ni Haring Ahasuerus, agod pamatyon ang bisan sin-o nga magsalakay sa ila. Wala sing may makabato sa ila tungod kay nahadlok sa ila ang tanan nga tawo. Bisan gani ang tanan nga opisyal sang mga probinsya, pati ang ila mga gobernador, mga pangulo kag mga administrador, nagbulig sa mga Judio tungod kay nahadlok man sila kay Mordecai. Kay si Mordecai isa na ka gamhanan nga tawo sa palasyo sang hari; bantog na siya sa bug-os nga ginharian. Kag nagdugang pa gid ang iya pagkagamhanan.

Gani ginpamatay sang mga Judio ang tanan nila nga kaaway paagi sa espada. Ginhimo nila ang ila gusto sa sining mga nagakontra sa ila. Sa siyudad lang sang Susa, 500 ang ila napatay. Ginpatay man nila sila ni Parshandata, Dalfon, Aspata, Porata, Adalia, Aridata, Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, kag Vayzata. 10 Sila amo ang napulo ka anak ni Haman nga kaaway sang mga Judio, nga anak ni Hamedata. Pero wala pagkuhaa sang mga Judio ang mga pagkabutang sang ila mga kaaway.

11 Sadto man nga adlaw, ginsugid sa hari ang kadamuon sang ginpamatay sa siyudad sang Susa. 12 Kag nagsiling ang hari kay Rayna Ester, “Sa Susa lang, 500 ang napatay sang mga Judio, kag ginpamatay man nila ang napulo ka anak ni Haman. Ano ayhan ang natabo sa iban nga mga probinsya? Karon, ano pa gid ang pangayuon mo kay ihatag ko sa imo.” 13 Nagsiling si Ester, “Kon gusto mo, Mahal nga Hari, tuguti ang mga Judio diri sa Susa sa pagdepensa liwat sang ila kaugalingon sa buwas, pareho sang ila ginhimo subong. Kag ipabitay sa kahoy ang mga bangkay sang napulo ka anak ni Haman.”

14 Gani nagsugo ang hari nga himuon ang pangabay ni Ester. Ginpahibalo sa Susa ang mando sang hari, kag ginpabitay ang mga bangkay sang napulo ka anak ni Haman. 15 Pagkaaga, ika-14 nga adlaw sang bulan sang Adar, nagtipon liwat ang mga Judio nga ara sa Susa, kag nakapatay sila sang 300 ka tawo. Pero wala nila pagkuhaa ang pagkabutang sang ila mga kaaway.

16-17 Sang nagligad nga adlaw, nagtilipon ang mga Judio nga ara sa nagkalain-lain nga mga parte sang ginharian agod depensahan kag luwason ang ila kaugalingon sa ila mga kaaway. Nakapatay sila sing 75,000 ka tawo, pero wala nila pagkuhaa ang mga pagkabutang sang ila mga kaaway. Pagkasunod nga adlaw, ika-14 nga adlaw, nagpahuway sila kag naghiwat sang piesta nga may pagsinadya. 18 (Pero sa Susa iya, duha ka adlaw ang pagpamatay sang mga Judio sa ila mga kaaway, sang ika-13 kag sang ika-14 nga adlaw. Kag sang ika-15 nga adlaw, nagpahuway sila kag naghiwat man sang piesta nga may pagsinadya). 19 Amo ina nga ang mga Judio nga nagaestar sa mga baryo nagasaulog sang piesta kada ika-14 nga adlaw sang bulan sang Adar. Sa sina nga adlaw nagahinatagay sila sang regalo.[a]

Ang Piesta nga Ginatawag “Purim”

20 Ginsulat ni Mordecai ang tanan nga natabo, kag nagpadala siya sang sulat sa tanan nga Judio, malayo man ukon malapit, sa tanan nga probinsya nga sakop ni Haring Ahasuerus. 21 Sa sini nga sulat, ginhambalan ni Mordecai ang mga Judio nga saulugon nila kada tuig ang ika-14 kag ika-15 nga adlaw sang bulan sang Adar, 22 sa pagdumdom sang tion nga nakaluwas sila sa ila mga kaaway, kag ginbayluhan ang ila kasubo sang kalipay kag ang paghibi sang pagsinadya. Ginhambalan man sila ni Mordecai sa sulat nga saulugon nila ang piesta nga may pagsinadya, kag maghinatagay sila sang regalo,[b] kag hatagan man nila ang mga imol.

23 Ginsunod sang mga Judio ang mando ni Mordecai nga padayunon nila ang pagsaulog sang amo nga piesta kada tuig.

Ang Rason kon ngaa may Piesta nga Ginatawag “Purim”

24 Si Haman nga anak ni Hamedata nga Agagnon, nga kaaway sang tanan nga Judio, nagplano sa pagpatay sa mga Judio. Naggabot-gabot siya agod mahibaluan niya kon san-o niya sila laglagon. Ang butang nga gin-gamit sa paggabot-gabot ginatawag nga “pur.” 25 Pero sang mabalitaan sang hari ang ato nga plano paagi kay Rayna Ester, nagpasulat siya sang mando nga ang malain nga plano ni Haman kontra sa mga Judio himuon sa iya. Kag ginbitay si Haman pati ang iya mga anak nga lalaki. 26 Gani ang pagsaulog sang sina nga tion ginatawag nga Purim,[c] halin sa pulong nga “pur.” Kag tungod sa sulat ni Mordecai kag tungod sa ila naeksperiensyahan, 27 naghilisugot ang mga Judio nga saulugon nila sa husto nga tion kada tuig ang inang duha ka adlaw nga piesta sa pamaagi nga ginsiling ni Mordecai. Nagdesisyon sila nga himuon nila ini kag sang ila mga kaliwat, kag sang tanan nga nangin Judio. 28 Ining duha ka adlaw sang Purim dumdumon kag saulugon sang kada pamilya sang mga Judio sa kada henerasyon, sa tanan nga probinsya kag siyudad sang ginharian. Indi nila ini pag-untatan ukon pagkalimtan, bisan sang ila mga kaliwat.

29 Agod mapalig-on ang sulat ni Mordecai parte sa Purim, nagsulat man si Rayna Ester nga anak ni Abihail, parte sa sini nga piesta. Kaupod niya si Mordecai sa pagsulat sini. 30 Ginpadala ini ni Mordecai sa 127 ka probinsya nga sakop sang ginharian ni Haring Ahasuerus. Nakahatag ini sang kalinong kag kalig-on sa mga Judio, 31 kag nagasugo sa ila nga saulugon nila ang Purim sa husto nga tion, subong sang ginmando ni Mordecai, nga ginmando man ni Rayna Ester. Sundon nila ini, subong nga ginasunod nila kag sang ila mga kaliwat ang pagsulundan parte sa pagpuasa kag pagpangasubo. 32 Ang mando ni Ester nga nagpalig-on sa mga pagsulundan parte sa Purim ginsulat sa libro.

Footnotes

  1. 9:19 regalo: ukon, regalo nga pagkaon.
  2. 9:22 regalo: Tan-awa ang footnote sa bersikulo 19.
  3. 9:26 Purim: Amo ini ang tawag sa sobra sa isa nga “pur.”

On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar,(A) the edict commanded by the king was to be carried out. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but now the tables were turned and the Jews got the upper hand(B) over those who hated them.(C) The Jews assembled in their cities(D) in all the provinces of King Xerxes to attack those determined to destroy them. No one could stand against them,(E) because the people of all the other nationalities were afraid of them. And all the nobles of the provinces, the satraps, the governors and the king’s administrators helped the Jews,(F) because fear of Mordecai had seized them.(G) Mordecai(H) was prominent(I) in the palace; his reputation spread throughout the provinces, and he became more and more powerful.(J)

The Jews struck down all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying them,(K) and they did what they pleased to those who hated them. In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men. They also killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha, Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha, Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai and Vaizatha, 10 the ten sons(L) of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews.(M) But they did not lay their hands on the plunder.(N)

11 The number of those killed in the citadel of Susa was reported to the king that same day. 12 The king said to Queen Esther, “The Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men and the ten sons of Haman in the citadel of Susa. What have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces? Now what is your petition? It will be given you. What is your request? It will also be granted.”(O)

13 “If it pleases the king,” Esther answered, “give the Jews in Susa permission to carry out this day’s edict tomorrow also, and let Haman’s ten sons(P) be impaled(Q) on poles.”

14 So the king commanded that this be done. An edict was issued in Susa, and they impaled(R) the ten sons of Haman. 15 The Jews in Susa came together on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and they put to death in Susa three hundred men, but they did not lay their hands on the plunder.(S)

16 Meanwhile, the remainder of the Jews who were in the king’s provinces also assembled to protect themselves and get relief(T) from their enemies.(U) They killed seventy-five thousand of them(V) but did not lay their hands on the plunder.(W) 17 This happened on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth they rested and made it a day of feasting(X) and joy.

18 The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and fourteenth, and then on the fifteenth they rested and made it a day of feasting and joy.

19 That is why rural Jews—those living in villages—observe the fourteenth of the month of Adar(Y) as a day of joy and feasting, a day for giving presents to each other.(Z)

Purim Established

20 Mordecai recorded these events, and he sent letters to all the Jews throughout the provinces of King Xerxes, near and far, 21 to have them celebrate annually the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar 22 as the time when the Jews got relief(AA) from their enemies, and as the month when their sorrow was turned into joy and their mourning into a day of celebration.(AB) He wrote them to observe the days as days of feasting and joy and giving presents of food(AC) to one another and gifts to the poor.(AD)

23 So the Jews agreed to continue the celebration they had begun, doing what Mordecai had written to them. 24 For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite,(AE) the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the pur(AF) (that is, the lot(AG)) for their ruin and destruction.(AH) 25 But when the plot came to the king’s attention,[a] he issued written orders that the evil scheme Haman had devised against the Jews should come back onto his own head,(AI) and that he and his sons should be impaled(AJ) on poles.(AK) 26 (Therefore these days were called Purim, from the word pur.(AL)) Because of everything written in this letter and because of what they had seen and what had happened to them, 27 the Jews took it on themselves to establish the custom that they and their descendants and all who join them should without fail observe these two days every year, in the way prescribed and at the time appointed. 28 These days should be remembered and observed in every generation by every family, and in every province and in every city. And these days of Purim should never fail to be celebrated by the Jews—nor should the memory of these days die out among their descendants.

29 So Queen Esther, daughter of Abihail,(AM) along with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter concerning Purim. 30 And Mordecai sent letters to all the Jews in the 127 provinces(AN) of Xerxes’ kingdom—words of goodwill and assurance— 31 to establish these days of Purim at their designated times, as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had decreed for them, and as they had established for themselves and their descendants in regard to their times of fasting(AO) and lamentation.(AP) 32 Esther’s decree confirmed these regulations about Purim, and it was written down in the records.

Footnotes

  1. Esther 9:25 Or when Esther came before the king

Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)

The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon all people.

And all the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the deputies, and officers of the king, helped the Jews; because the fear of Mordecai fell upon them.

For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.

Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.

And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.

And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,

And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,

And Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha,

10 The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand.

11 On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king.

12 And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? now what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what is thy request further? and it shall be done.

13 Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.

14 And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.

15 For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.

16 But the other Jews that were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey,

17 On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

18 But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.

20 And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far,

21 To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,

22 As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.

23 And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;

24 Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;

25 But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

26 Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them,

27 The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;

28 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 the memorial of them perish from their seed.

29 Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim.

30 And he sent the letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth,

31 To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.

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