1 十二月， 就是亚达月， 十三日， 王的命令和谕旨快要执行的时候， 就是犹大人的仇敌盼望辖制犹大人的日子， 反成了犹大人辖制恨他们的人的日子。 2 犹大人在亚哈随鲁王各省的城里聚集起来， 要下手攻击那些想谋害他们的人； 没有人能抵挡他们， 因为各族的人都惧怕他们。 3 各省的官长、总督、省长和办理王事务的人， 因为惧怕末底改， 就都支持犹大人。 4 末底改在朝中的确非常尊大， 他的声誉传遍各省； 末底改这人的权力越来越大。 5 这样， 犹大人击杀他们所有的仇敌， 他们用刀尽量击杀， 随意对待他们的仇人。 6 在书珊城里， 犹大人就杀灭了五百人。 7 他们又杀了巴珊大他、达分、亚斯帕他、 8 破拉他、亚大利雅、亚利大他、 9 帕玛斯他、亚利赛、亚利代和瓦耶撒他， 10 这十个人就是哈米大他的孙子、哈曼的儿子， 犹大人的敌人； 至于财物， 犹大人却没有下手掠夺。 11 当日在书珊城被杀的人的数目， 呈到王面前。 12 王问王后以斯帖： "犹大人在书珊城杀灭了五百人， 又杀了哈曼的十个儿子； 在王其他省内， 他们怎样行呢！ 现在你要什么， 我必赐给你， 你还求什么， 也必给你成全。" 13 以斯帖回答： "王若是同意， 求你恩准书珊的犹大人， 明日也照着今日的谕旨行事， 把哈曼的十个儿子挂在木架上。" 14 王就下令这样行； 谕旨传遍书珊， 人就把哈曼的十个儿子挂在木架上。 15 亚达月十四日， 在书珊的犹大人又聚集起来， 在书珊杀了三百人， 却没有下手掠夺他们的财物。 16 在王各省其余的犹大人， 也都聚集起来， 保护自己的性命， 向他们的仇敌报复， 杀了恨他们的人共七万五千； 至于财物， 他们却没有下手掠夺。 17 这是在亚达月十三日的事， 十四日他们得享安宁， 以这日为设宴欢乐的日子。 18 但在书珊的犹大人在十三、十四日聚集起来杀敌， 他们就在十五日休息， 以这日为设宴欢乐的日子。 19 因此乡村的犹大人， 就是住在没有城墙的村镇的， 都以亚达月十四日为欢乐饮宴的吉日， 互送礼物。 20 末底改把这些事记录下来， 并且送文书给亚哈随鲁各省远近所有的犹大人， 21 嘱咐他们每年都要守亚达月十四、十五两日。 22 以这月的两日， 为犹大人脱离仇敌， 得享安宁的日子， 是转忧为喜， 转哀为乐的吉日， 叫他们在这两日饮宴欢乐， 大家互赠礼物， 也赒济穷人。 23 于是， 犹大人承诺要守他们起初所守的， 也承诺要遵守末底改写给他们的。 24 原本犹大人的敌人， 亚甲族哈米大他的儿子哈曼曾经设谋陷害犹大人， 要消灭他们； 他弄卜"普珥"， 就是抽签， 为要打击和消灭犹大人。 25 但这事呈到王面前以后， 王使用文书降旨吩咐， 使哈曼计谋的恶事， 就是他设谋陷害犹大人的事归到他自己的头上， 又使人把他和他的众子挂在木架上。 26 因此， 犹大人照着"普珥"的名字， 称这两日为普珥节； 所以他们因这信上的话， 又因他们所看见和所遭遇的事， 27 犹大人就立了定例， 承诺他们自己和他们的后裔， 以及所有与他们联合的人， 每年都要按着所写的和指定的两日守这节日， 永不可废止。 28 使人在各省各城， 家家户户， 世世代代， 都记念、遵守这两日， 使这普珥节的日子在犹大人中， 永不废止。 29 亚比孩的女儿王后以斯帖和犹大人末底改以全权写了这第二封信， 嘱咐犹大人守这普珥节。 30 他用和平和诚实的话， 把文书送给亚哈随鲁国中一百二十七省所有的犹大人， 31 劝他们按着规定的时期， 照着犹大人末底改和王后以斯帖所嘱咐的， 也照着他们在禁食和哀求的时候为自己与后裔所承诺的， 守这普珥节。 32 以斯帖的命令确定了普珥节； 这命令也记录在史记上。

1 And in the twelfth month -- it [is] the month of Adar -- on the thirteenth day of it, in which the word of the king, even his law, hath come to be done, in the day that the enemies of the Jews had hoped to rule over them, and it is turned that the Jews rule over those hating them --2 the Jews have been assembled in their cities, in all provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to put forth a hand on those seeking their evil, and no man hath stood in their presence, for their fear hath fallen on all the peoples.3 And all heads of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the governors, and those doing the work that the king hath, are lifting up the Jews, for a fear of Mordecai hath fallen upon them;4 for great [is] Mordecai in the house of the king, and his fame is going into all the provinces, for the man Mordecai is going on and becoming great.5 And the Jews smite among all their enemies -- a smiting of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction -- and do with those hating them according to their pleasure,6 and in Shushan the palace have the Jews slain 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 ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, adversary of the Jews, they have slain, and on the prey they have not put forth their hand.11 On that day hath come the number of the slain in Shushan the palace before the king,12 and the king saith to Esther the queen, `In Shushan the palace have the Jews slain and destroyed five hundred men, and the ten sons of Haman; in the rest of the provinces of the king what have they done? and what [is] thy petition? and it is given to thee; and what thy request again? and it is done.`13 And Esther saith, `If to the king [it be] good, let it be given also to-morrow, to the Jews who [are] in Shushan, to do according to the law of to-day; and the ten sons of Haman they hang on the tree.`14 And the king saith -- `to be done so;` and a law is given in Shushan, and the ten sons of Haman they have hanged.15 And the Jews who [are] in Shushan are assembled also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and they slay in Shushan three hundred men, and on the prey they have not put forth their hand.16 And the rest of the Jews, who [are] in the provinces of the king, have been assembled, even to stand for their life, and to rest from their enemies, and to slay among those hating them five and seventy thousand, and on the prey they have not put forth their hand;17 on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, even to rest on the fourteenth of it, and to make it a day of banquet and of joy.18 And the Jews who [are] in Shushan have been assembled, on the thirteenth day of it, and on the fourteenth of it, even to rest on the fifteenth of it, and to make it a day of banquet and of joy.19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, who are dwelling in cities of the villages, are making the fourteenth day of the month of Adar -- joy and banquet, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.20 And Mordecai writeth these things, and sendeth letters unto all the Jews who [are] in all provinces of the king Ahasuerus, who are near and who are far off,21 to establish on them, to be keeping the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and the fifteenth day of it, in every year and year,22 as days on which the Jews have rested from their enemies, and the month that hath been turned to them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning to a good day, to make them days of banquet and of joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the needy.23 And the Jews have received that which they had begun to do, and that which Mordecai hath written unto them,24 because Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, adversary of all the Jews, had devised concerning the Jews to destroy them, and had caused to fall Pur -- that [is] the lot -- to crush them and to destroy them;25 and in her coming in before the king, he said with the letter, `Let his evil device that he devised against the Jews turn back upon his own head,` and they have hanged him and his sons on the tree,26 therefore they have called these days Purim -- by the name of the lot -- therefore, because of all the words of this letter, and what they have seen concerning this, and what hath come unto them,27 the Jews have established and received upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all those joined unto them, and it doth not pass away, to be keeping these two days according to their writing, and according to their season, in every year and year;28 and these days are remembered and kept in every generation and generation, family and family, province and province, and city and city, and these days of Purim do not pass away from the midst of the Jews, and their memorial is not ended from their seed.29 And Esther the queen, daughter of Abihail, writeth, and Mordecai the Jew, with all might, to establish this second letter of Purim,30 and he sendeth letters unto all the Jews, unto the seven and twenty and a hundred provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus -- words of peace and truth --31 to establish these days of Purim, in their seasons, as Mordecai the Jew hath established on them, and Esther the queen, and as they had established on themselves, and on their seed -- matters of the fastings, and of their cry.32 And a saying of Esther hath established these matters of Purim, and it is written in the Book.