1 وفي الشهر الثاني عشر اي شهر اذار في اليوم الثالث عشر منه حين قرب كلام الملك وأمره من الاجراء في اليوم الذي انتظر فيه اعداء اليهود ان يتسلطوا عليهم فتحول ذلك حتى ان اليهود تسلطوا على مبغضيهم2 اجتمع اليهود في مدنهم في كل بلاد الملك احشويروش ليمدوا ايديهم الى طالبي اذيتهم فلم يقف احد قدامهم لان رعبهم سقط على جميع الشعوب.3 وكل رؤساء البلدان والمرازبة والولاة وعمال الملك ساعدوا اليهود لان رعب مردخاي سقط عليهم.4 لان مردخاي كان عظيما في بيت الملك وسار خبره في كل البلدان لان الرجل مردخاي كان يتزايد عظمة5 فضرب اليهود جميع اعدائهم ضربة سيف وقتل وهلاك وعملوا بمبغضيهم ما ارادوا.6 وقتل اليهود في شوشن القصر واهلكوا خمس مئة رجل.7 وفرشنداثا ودلفون واسفاثا8 وفوراثا وادليا واريداثا9 وفرمشتا واريساي واريداي ويزاثا10 عشرة بني هامان بن همداثا عدو اليهود قتلوهم ولكنهم لم يمدوا ايديهم الى النهب11 في ذلك اليوم أتي بعدد القتلى في شوشن القصر الى بين يدي الملك.12 فقال الملك لاستير الملكة في شوشن القصر قد قتل اليهود واهلكوا خمس مئة رجل وبني هامان العشرة فماذا عملوا في باقي بلدان الملك. فما هو سؤلك فيعطى لك وما هي طلبتك بعد فتقضى.13 فقالت استير ان حسن عند الملك فليعطى غدا ايضا لليهود الذين في شوشن ان يعملوا كما في هذا اليوم ويصلبوا بني هامان العشرة على الخشبة.14 فأمر الملك ان يعملوا هكذا واعطي الامر في شوشن. فصلبوا بني هامان العشرة15 ثم اجتمع اليهود الذين في شوشن في اليوم الرابع عشر ايضا من شهر اذار وقتلوا في شوشن ثلاث مئة رجل ولكنهم لم يمدوا ايديهم الى النهب.16 وباقي اليهود الذين في بلدان الملك اجتمعوا ووقفوا لاجل انفسهم واستراحوا من اعدائهم وقتلوا من مبغضيهم خمسة وسبعين الفا. ولكنهم لم يمدوا ايديهم الى النهب.17 في اليوم الثالث عشر من شهر اذار. واستراحوا في اليوم الرابع عشر منه وجعلوه يوم شرب وفرح.18 واليهود الذين في شوشن اجتمعوا في الثالث عشر والرابع عشر منه واستراحوا في الخامس عشر وجعلوه يوم شرب وفرح.19 لذلك يهود الاعراء الساكنون في مدن الاعراء جعلوا اليوم الرابع عشر من شهر اذار للفرح والشرب ويوما طيبا ولارسال انصبة من كل واحد الى صاحبه20 وكتب مردخاي هذه الأمور وارسل رسائل الى جميع اليهود الذين في كل بلدان الملك احشويروش القريبين والبعيدين21 ليوجب عليهم ان يعيّدوا في اليوم الرابع عشر من شهر اذار واليوم الخامس عشر منه في كل سنة22 حسب الايام التي استراح فيها اليهود من اعدائهم والشهر الذي تحول عندهم من حزن الى فرح ومن نوح الى يوم طيب ليجعلوها ايام شرب وفرح وارسال انصبة من كل واحد الى صاحبه وعطايا للفقراء.23 فقبل اليهود ما ابتدأوا يعملونه وما كتبه مردخاي اليهم.24 ولان هامان بن همداثا الاجاجي عدو اليهود جميعا تفكر على اليهود ليبيدهم والقى فورا اي قرعة لافنائهم وابادتهم.25 وعند دخولها الى امام الملك أمر بكتابة ان يرد تدبيره الرديء الذي دبّره ضد اليهود على راسه وان يصلبوه هو وبنيه على الخشبة.26 لذلك دعوا تلك الايام فوريم على اسم الفور. لذلك من اجل جميع كلمات هذه الرسالة وما راوه من ذلك وما اصابهم27 اوجب اليهود وقبلوا على انفسهم وعلى نسلهم وعلى جميع الذين يلتصقون بهم حتى لا يزول ان يعيّدوا هذين اليومين حسب كتابتهما وحسب اوقاتهما كل سنة28 وان يذكر هذان اليومان ويحفظا في دور فدور وعشيرة فعشيرة وبلاد فبلاد ومدينة فمدينة ويوما الفور هذان لا يزولان من وسط اليهود وذكرهما لا يفني من نسلهم29 وكتبت استير الملكة بنت ابيجائل ومردخاي اليهودي بكل سلطان بايجاب رسالة الفوريم هذه ثانية.30 وارسل الكتابات الى جميع اليهود الى كور مملكة احشويروش المئة والسبع والعشرين بكلام سلام وامانة31 لإيجاب يومي الفوريم هذين في اوقاتهما كما اوجب عليهم مردخاي اليهودي واستير الملكة وكما اوجبوا على انفسهم وعلى نسلهم امور الاصوام وصراخهم.32 وأمر استير اوجب امور الفوريم هذه فكتبت في السفر

1 Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king' 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;)2 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 on all people.3 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 on them.4 For Mordecai was great in the king' house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.5 Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would to those that hated them.6 And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.7 And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,8 And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,9 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 to 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' provinces? now what is your petition? and it shall be granted you: or what is your 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 to this day' decree, and let Haman' ten sons be hanged on the gallows.14 And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman' 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' 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 dwelled 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 to all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both near and far,21 To establish 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 to 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 to 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 on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.26 Why 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 to them,27 The Jews ordained, and took on them, and on their seed, and on all such as joined themselves to 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 to 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.