1 Ora, no duodécimo mês, que é o mês de Adar, aos treze dias do mesmo, em que a ordem do rei, e o seu decreto, chegou para se executar, no dia em que os inimigos dos judeus esperavam assenhorear-se deles, sucedeu o contrário, de sorte que os judeus se assenhorearam dos que os odiavam.
2 Os judeus se tinham ajuntado nas suas cidades, em todas as províncias do rei Assuero, para atacarem os que lhes procuravam o mal. Ninguém podia resistir-lhes, pois o medo que inspiravam tinha caído sobre todos os povos.
3 Todos os príncipes das províncias, e os sátrapas e os governadores e os que faziam a obra do rei, tinham estado ajudando os judeus, porque o medo que tinham de Mordecai se apoderara deles.
4 Pois Mordecai era grande na casa do rei, e a sua fama ia crescendo em todas as províncias, porque se ia engrandecendo mais e mais.
5 Os judeus feriram à espada a todos os seus inimigos e os mataram e fizeram perecer: aos que os odiavam eles trataram como quiseram.
6 No castelo de Susã os judeus mataram e destruíram quinhentos homens.
7 Também mataram a Persandata, Dalom, Aspata,
8 Porata, Adalia, Aridata,
9 Parmasta, Arisai, Aridai e Vaisata,
10 os dez filhos de Hamã, filho de Hamedata, e inimigo dos judeus; porém no despojo não tocaram.
11 Nesse mesmo dia veio ao conhecimento do rei o número dos que foram mortos no castelo de Susã.
12 O rei disse à rainha Ester: No castelo de Susã mataram e destruíram os judeus quinhentos homens e os dez filhos de Hamã; que não terão eles feito no resto da província do rei? Ora, qual é a tua petição? e te será concedida; e qual é ainda o teu rogo? e cumprir-se-á.
13 Respondeu Ester: Se parecer bem ao rei, conceda-se aos judeus que estão em Susã que façam amanhã também segundo o decreto de hoje, e sejam pendurados na forca os dez filhos de Hamã.
14 O rei mandou que assim se fizesse; o decreto foi divulgado em Susã, e dependuraram os dez filhos de Hamã.
15 Os judeus que estavam em Susã ajuntaram-se também no dia quatorze do mês de Adar, e mataram trezentos homens em Susã; porém, no despojo não tocaram.
16 Os demais judeus que estavam nas províncias do rei ajuntaram-se, e dispuseram-se para defender as suas vidas, e tiveram descanso dos seus inimigos, e mataram dos que os odiavam setenta e cinco mil; porém, no despojo não tocaram.
17 Sucedeu isso no dia treze do mês de Adar; no dia quatorze do mesmo descansaram, e fizeram-no dia de banquetes e de alegria.
18 Mas os judeus que estavam em Susã ajuntaram-se no dia treze como também no dia quatorze do mesmo; no dia quinze descansaram, e fizeram-no dia de banquetes e de alegria.
19 Portanto, os judeus das vilas, que assistem nas aldeias não muradas, fazem o dia quatorze do mês de Adar dia de alegria e de banquetes, e de festas, e dia de enviarem quinhões uns aos outros.
20 Mordecai escreveu estas coisas, e enviou cartas a todos os judeus que estavam em todas as províncias do rei Assuero, aos de perto e aos de longe,
21 ordenando-lhes que celebrassem o dia quatorze do mês de Adar e o dia quinze do mesmo todos os anos,
22 como os dias em que os judeus tiveram descanso dos seus inimigos, e como o mês que se lhes mudou de tristeza em alegria, e de pranto em festim, a fim de que os fizessem dias de banquetes e de alegria, em que enviassem quinhões uns aos outros, e dádivas aos pobres.
23 Os judeus encarregaram-se de fazer como já tinham começado e como Mordecai lhes tinha escrito;
24 porque Hamã, filho de Hamedata, agagita, inimigo dos judeus, tinha formado contra os judeus o projeto de os destruir, e tinha deitado Pur, que quer dizer, sortes para os assolar e para os destruir.
25 Vindo isso perante o rei, mandou ele por cartas que o mau desígnio que Hamã tinha excogitado contra os judeus, recaísse sobre a cabeça dele, e que ele e seus filhos fossem pendurados na forca.
26 Pelo que se chamaram esses dias Purim, por causa do nome de Pur. Portanto por causa das palavras desta carta, e do que tinham testemunhado, e do que lhes havia sucedido,
27 os judeus estabeleceram e tomaram sobre si, sobre os seus descendentes e sobre todos os que haviam de unir-se com eles, a resolução irrevogável de que fossem celebrados estes dois dias, de acordo com a carta que os prescreveu, e de acordo com o tempo marcado para eles; em todos os anos;
28 e que esses dias fossem lembrados e celebrados em todas as gerações, em todas as famílias, em todas as províncias e em todas as cidades; e que esses dias de Purim não fossem revogados entre os judeus, nem o memorial deles se extinguisse dentre os seus descendentes.
29 Então escreveram à rainha Ester, filha de Abiail, e o judeu Mordecai com toda a autoridade uma segunda vez para confirmar a carta a respeito de Purim.
30 Enviaram cartas a todos os judeus, às cento e vinte e sete províncias do reino de Assuero, palavras de paz e de verdade,
31 para confirmar estes dias de Purim nos seus tempos determinados, como o judeu Mordecai e a rainha Ester lhes tinham ordenado, e como eles se tinham obrigado por si e pela sua descendência, nas particularidades de jejuns e do seu clamor.
32 O mandamento de Ester confirmou estas particularidades de Purim; e foi escrito no livro.
1 Now on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, when the time came for the king's order to be put into effect, on the very day when the haters of the Jews had been hoping to have rule over them; though the opposite had come about, and the Jews had rule over their haters;
2 On that day, the Jews came together in their towns through all the divisions of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, for the purpose of attacking all those who were attempting evil against them: and everyone had to give way before them, for the fear of them had come on all the peoples.
3 And all the chiefs and the captains and the rulers and those who did the king's business gave support to the Jews; because the fear of Mordecai had come on them.
4 For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and word of him went out through every part of the kingdom: for the man Mordecai became greater and greater.
5 So the Jews overcame all their attackers with the sword and with death and destruction, and did to their haters whatever they had a desire to do.
6 And in Shushan the Jews put to death five hundred men.
7 They put to death Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,
8 Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
9 Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha,
10 The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the hater of the Jews; but they put not a hand on any of their goods.
11 On that day the number of those who had been put to death in the town of Shushan was given to the king.
12 And the king said to Esther the queen, The Jews have put five hundred men to death in Shushan, as well as the ten sons of Haman: what then have they done in the rest of the kingdom! Now what is your prayer? for it will be given to you; what other request have you? and it will be done.
13 Then Esther said, If it is the king's pleasure, let authority be given to the Jews in Shushan to do tomorrow as has been done today, and let orders be given for the hanging of Haman's ten sons.
14 And the king said that this was to be done, and the order was given out in Shushan, and the hanging of Haman's ten sons was effected.
15 For the Jews who were in Shushan came together again on the fourteenth day of the month Adar and put to death three hundred men in Shushan; but they put not a hand on their goods.
16 And the other Jews in every division of the kingdom came together, fighting for their lives, and got salvation from their haters and put seventy-five thousand of them to death; but they did not put a hand on their goods.
17 This they did on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same month they took their rest, and made it a day of feasting and joy.
18 But the Jews in Shushan came together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth day of the month; and on the fifteenth day they took their rest, and made it a day of feasting and joy.
19 So the Jews of the country places living in unwalled towns make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of feasting and joy and a good day, a day for sending offerings one to another.
20 And Mordecai sent letters to all the Jews in every division of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, near and far,
21 Ordering them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and the fifteenth day of the same month, every year,
22 As days on which the Jews had rest from their haters, and the month which for them was turned from sorrow to joy, and from weeping to a good day: and that they were to keep them as days of feasting and joy, of sending offerings to one another and good things to the poor.
23 And the Jews gave their word to go on as they had been doing and as Mordecai had given them orders in writing;
24 Because Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the hater of all the Jews, had made designs for their destruction, attempting to get a decision by Pur (that is, chance) with a view to putting an end to them and cutting them off;
25 But when the business was put before the king, he gave orders by letters that the evil design which he had made against the Jews was to be turned against himself; and that he and his sons were to be put to death by hanging.
26 So these days were named Purim, after the name of Pur. And so, because of the words of this letter, and of what they had seen in connection with this business, and what had come to them,
27 The Jews made a rule and gave an undertaking, causing their seed and all those who were joined to them to do the same, so that it might be in force for ever, that they would keep those two days, as ordered in the letter, at the fixed time every year;
28 And that those days were to be kept in memory through every generation and every family, in every division of the kingdom and every town, that there might never be a time when these days of Purim would not be kept among the Jews, or when the memory of them would go from the minds of their seed.
29 Then Esther the queen, daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, sent a second letter giving the force of their authority to the order about the Purim.
30 And he sent letters to all the Jews in the hundred and twenty-seven divisions of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with true words of peace,
31 Giving the force of law to these days of Purim at their fixed times, as they had been ordered by Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen, and in keeping with the rules they had made for themselves and their seed, in connection with their time of going without food and their cry for help.
32 The order given by Esther gave the force of law to the rules about the Purim; and it was recorded in the book.