에스더 3

1그 후에 아하수에로 왕이 아각 사람 함므다다의 아들 하만의 지위를 높이 올려 모든 함께 있는 대신 위에 두니 2대궐 문에 있는 왕의 모든 신복이 다 왕의 명대로 하만에게 꿇어 절하되 모르드개는 꿇지도 아니하고 절하지도 아니하니 3대궐 문에 있는 왕의 신복이 모르드개에게 이르되 너는 어찌하여 왕의 명령을 거역하느냐 하고 4날마다 권하되 모르드개가 듣지 아니하고 자기는 유다인임을 고하였더니 저희가 모르드개의 일이 어찌되나 보고자 하여 하만에게 고하였더라 5하만이 모르드개가 꿇지도 아니하고 절하지도 아니함을 보고 심히 노하더니 6저희가 모르드개의 민족을 하만에게 고한고로 하만이 모르드개만 죽이는 것이 경하다 하고 아하수에로의 온 나라에 있는 유다인 곧 모르드개의 민족을 다 멸하고자 하더라 7아하수에로 왕 십이년 정월 곧 니산월에 무리가 하만 앞에서 날과 달에 대하여 부르 곧 제비를 뽑아 십이월 곧 아달월을 얻은지라 8하만이 아하수에로 왕에게 아뢰되 한 민족이 왕의 나라 각 도 백성 중에 흩어져 거하는데 그 법률이 만민보다 달라서 왕의 법률을 지키지 아니하오니 용납하는 것이 왕에게 무익하나이다 9왕이 옳게 여기시거든 조서를 내려 저희를 진멸하소서 내가 은 일만 달란트를 왕의 일을 맡은 자의 손에 붙여 왕의 부고에 드리리이다 10왕이 반지를 손에서 빼어 유다인의 대적 곧 아각 사람 함므다다의 아들 하만에게 주며 11이르되 그 은을 네게 주고 그 백성도 그리하노니 너는 소견에 좋을대로 행하라 하더라 12정월 십삼일에 왕의 서기관이 소집되어 하만의 명을 따라 왕의 대신과 각 도 방백과 각 민족의 관원에게 아하수에로 왕의 이름으로 조서를 쓰되 곧 각 도의 문자와 각 민족의 방언대로 쓰고 왕의 반지로 인치니라 13이에 그 조서를 역졸에게 부쳐 왕의 각 도에 보내니 십이월 곧 아달월 십삼일 하루 동안에 모든 유다인을 노소나 어린 아이나 부녀를 무론하고 죽이고 도륙하고 진멸하고 또 그 재산을 탈취하라 하였고 14이 명령을 각 도에 전하기 위하여 조서의 초본을 모든 민족에게 선포하여 그 날을 위하여 준비하게 하라 하였더라 15역졸이 왕의 명을 받들어 급히 나가매 그 조서가 도성 수산에도 반포되니 왕은 하만과 함께 앉아 마시되 수산 성은 어지럽더라

1After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him. 2All the king’s servants who were in the king’s gate bowed down, and paid homage to Haman; for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai didn’t bow down or pay him homage. 3Then the king’s servants, who were in the king’s gate, said to Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the king’s commandment?” 4Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and he didn’t listen to them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s reason would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew. 5When Haman saw that Mordecai didn’t bow down, nor pay him homage, Haman was full of wrath. 6But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai’s people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai’s people. 7In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, and chose the twelfth month, which is the month Adar. 8Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different than other people’s. They don’t keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not for the king’s profit to allow them to remain. 9If it pleases the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who are in charge of the king’s business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.” 10The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy. 11The king said to Haman, “The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.” 12Then the king’s scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king’s satraps, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and it was sealed with the king’s ring. 13Letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions. 14A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day. 15The couriers went out in haste by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Shushan was perplexed.

1Na deze geschiedenissen maakte de koning Ahasveros Haman groot, den zoon van Hammedatha, den Agagiet, en hij verhoogde hem, en hij zette zijn stoel boven al de vorsten, die bij hem waren. 2En al de knechten des konings, die in de poort des konings waren, neigden en bogen zich neder voor Haman; want de koning had alzo van hem bevolen; maar Mordechai neigde zich niet, en boog zich niet neder. 3Toen zeiden de knechten des konings, die in de poort des konings waren, tot Mordechai: Waarom overtreedt gij des konings gebod? 4Het geschiedde nu, toen zij dit van dag tot dag tot hem zeiden, en hij naar hen niet hoorde, zo gaven zij het Haman te kennen, opdat zij zagen, of de woorden van Mordechai bestaan zouden; want hij had hun te kennen gegeven, dat hij een Jood was. 5Toen Haman zag, dat Mordechai zich niet neigde, noch zich voor hem nederboog, zo werd Haman vervuld met grimmigheid. 6Doch hij verachtte in zijn ogen, dat hij aan Mordechai alleen de hand zou slaan (want men had hem het volk van Mordechai aangewezen); maar Haman zocht al de Joden, die in het ganse koninkrijk van Ahasveros waren, namelijk het volk van Mordechai, te verdelgen. 7In de eerste maand (deze is de maand Nisan) in het twaalfde jaar van den koning Ahasveros, wierp men het Pur, dat is, het lot, voor Hamans aangezicht, van dag tot dag, en van maand tot maand, tot de twaalfde maand toe; deze is de maand Adar. 8Want Haman had tot den koning Ahasveros gezegd: Er is een volk, verstrooid en verdeeld onder de volken in al de landschappen uws koninkrijks; en hun wetten zijn verscheiden van de wetten aller volken; ook doen zij des konings wetten niet; daarom is het den koning niet oorbaar hen te laten blijven. 9Indien het den koning goeddunkt, laat er geschreven worden, dat men hen verdoe; zo zal ik tien duizend talenten zilvers opwegen in de handen dergenen, die het werk doen, om in des konings schatten te brengen. 10Toen trok de koning zijn ring van zijn hand, en hij gaf hem aan Haman, den zoon van Hammedatha, den Agagiet, der Joden tegenpartijder. 11En de koning zeide tot Haman: Dat zilver zij u geschonken, ook dat volk, om daarmede te doen, naar dat het goed is in uw ogen. 12Toen werden de schrijvers des konings geroepen, in de eerste maand, op den dertienden dag derzelve, en er werd geschreven naar alles, wat Haman beval, aan de stadhouders des konings, en aan de landvoogden, die over elk landschap waren, en aan de vorsten van elk volk, elk landschap naar zijn schrift, en elk volk naar zijn spraak; er werd geschreven in den naam van den koning Ahasveros, en het werd met des konings ring verzegeld. 13De brieven nu werden gezonden door de hand der lopers tot al de landschappen des konings, dat men zou verdelgen, doden en verdoen al de Joden, van den jonge tot den oude toe, de kleine kinderen en de vrouwen, op een dag, op den dertienden der twaalfde maand (deze is de maand Adar), en dat men hun buit zou roven. 14De inhoud van het schrift was, dat er een wet zou gegeven worden in alle landschappen, openbaar aan alle volken, dat zij tegen denzelfden dag zouden gereed zijn. 15De lopers gingen uit, voortgedrongen zijnde door het woord des konings, en de wet werd uitgegeven in den burg Susan. En de koning en Haman zaten en dronken, doch de stad Susan was verward.