1 Vindo, pois, o rei com Hamã, para beber com a rainha Ester, 2 disse também o rei a Ester, no segundo dia, no banquete do vinho: Qual é a tua petição, rainha Ester? E se te dará. E qual é o teu requerimento? Até metade do reino se fará. 3 Então, respondeu a rainha Ester e disse: Se, ó rei, achei graça aos teus olhos, e se bem parecer ao rei, dê-se-me a minha vida como minha petição e o meu povo como meu requerimento. 4 Porque estamos vendidos, eu e o meu povo, para nos destruírem, matarem e lançarem a perder; se ainda por servos e por servas nos vendessem, calar-me-ia, ainda que o opressor não recompensaria a perda do rei. 5 Então, falou o rei Assuero e disse à rainha Ester: Quem é esse? E onde está esse cujo coração o instigou a fazer assim? 6 E disse Ester: O homem, o opressor e o inimigo é este mau Hamã. Então, Hamã se perturbou perante o rei e a rainha. 7 E o rei, no seu furor, se levantou do banquete do vinho para o jardim do palácio; e Hamã se pôs em pé, para rogar à rainha Ester pela sua vida; porque viu que já o mal lhe era determinado pelo rei. 8 Tornando, pois, o rei do jardim do palácio à casa do banquete do vinho, Hamã tinha caído prostrado sobre o leito em que estava Ester. Então, disse o rei: Porventura, quereria ele também forçar a rainha perante mim nesta casa? Saindo essa palavra da boca do rei, cobriram a Hamã o rosto. 9 Então, disse Harbona, um dos eunucos que serviam diante do rei: Eis que também a forca de cinquenta côvados de altura que Hamã fizera para Mardoqueu, que falara para bem do rei, está junto à casa de Hamã. Então, disse o rei: Enforcai-o nela. 10 Enforcaram, pois, a Hamã na forca que ele tinha preparado para Mardoqueu. Então, o furor do rei se aplacou.

1 So the king and Aman went in, to drink with the queen.2 And the king said to her again the second day, after he was warm with wine: What is thy petition, Esther, that it may be granted thee? and what wilt thou have done: although thou ask the half of my kingdom, thou shalt have it.3 Then she answered: If I have found Favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please thee, give me my life for which I ask, and my people for which I request.4 For we are given up, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. And would God we were sold for bondmen and bondwomen: the evil might be borne with, and I would have mourned in silence: but now we have an enemy, whose cruelty redoundeth upon the king.5 And king Assuerus answered and said: Who is this, and of what power, that he should do these things?6 And Esther said: It is this Aman that is our adversary and most wicked enemy. Aman hearing this was forthwith astonished, not being able to bear the countenance of the king and of the queen.7 But the king being angry rose up, and went from the place of the banquet into the garden set with trees. Aman also rose up to entreat Esther the queen for his life, for he understood that evil was prepared for him by the king.8 And when the king came back out of the garden set with trees, and entered into the place of the banquet, he found Aman was fallen upon the bed on which Esther lay, and he said: He will force the queen also in my presence, in my own house. The word was not yet gone out of the king's mouth, and immediately they covered his face.9 And Harbona, one of the eunuchs that stood waiting on the king, said: Behold the gibbet which he hath prepared for Mardochai, who spoke for the king, standeth in Aman's house, being fifty cubits high. And the king said to him: Hang him upon it.10 So Aman was hanged on the gibbet, which he had prepared for Mardochai: and the king's wrath ceased.