Ester 3

1 After 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. 2 All 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. 3 Then the king’s servants who were in the king’s gate said to Mordecai, "Why do you disobey the king’s commandment?" 4 Now 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. 5 When Haman saw that Mordecai didn’t bow down nor pay him homage, Haman was full of wrath. 6 But 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.

7 In 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. 8 Haman 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 from 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. 9 If it pleases the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents*3:9 A talent is about 30 kilograms or 66 pounds or 965 Troy ounces of silver into the hands of those who are in charge of the king’s business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries."

10 The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy. 11 The king said to Haman, "The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you."

12 Then 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 local governors, 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. 13 Letters 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. 14 A 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. 15 The 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 Susa was perplexed.

Ka Whakaarohia e Hāmana kia Whakangaromia ngā Hūrai

1 I muri i ēnei mea ka whakanuia e Kīngi Ahahueruha a Hāmana tama a Hamerata Akaki, hāpainga ana ia ki runga, whakanekehia ake ana tōna torōna ki runga ake i o ngā rangatira katoa e noho ana i a ia. 2 Nā, kei te tuohu, kei te koropiko ki a Hāmana ngā tāngata katoa a te kīngi i te Kūwaha o te Kīngi; ko tā te kīngi whakahau hoki tēnā mōna. Ko Mororekai ia kīhai i tuohu, kīhai i piko.

3 Kātahi ka mea ngā tāngata a te kīngi i te Kūwaha o te Kīngi ki a Mororekai, "He aha koe i takahi ai i tā te kīngi whakahau?" 4 Kōrero noa rātou ki a ia i ia rā, i ia rā, heoi kīhai ia i rongo ki a rātou. Nā, kōrerotia ana e rātou ki a Hāmana, kia kitea ai e ū rānei ngā mea a Mororekai; kua whakaaturia hoki e ia ki a rātou he Hūrai ia.

5 Ā, nō te kitenga o Hāmana kīhai a Mororekai i tuohu, kīhai i piko ki a ia, nā, kī tonu a Hāmana i te riri. 6 Otiia i whakahāwea tōna whakaaro ki te whakapā ringa ki a Mororekai anake, kua oti hoki te kōrero ki a ia te iwi o Mororekai. Nā reira i whai ai a Hāmana kia whakangaromia ngā Hūrai katoa i te kīngitanga katoa o Ahahueruha, arā te iwi o Mororekai.

7 I te marama tuatahi, arā i te marama Nihana, i te tekau mā rua o ngā tau o Kīngi Ahahueruha, ka makā te Puri, arā te rota ki te aroaro o Hāmana i tēnei rā, i tēnei rā, i tēnei marama, i tēnei marama ā te tekau mā rua rā anō, arā te marama Arara.

8 Nā, ka mea a Hāmana ki a Kīngi Ahahueruha, "Tēnei tētahi iwi kei te tohatoha haere, kei te marara noa atu i roto i ngā iwi o ngā kāwanatanga katoa o tōu kīngitanga; ā, ko ā rātou ture he rerekē i a ngā iwi katoa; kāhore hoki rātou e mahi i ā te kīngi ture. Nā, ehara i te mea pai mō te kīngi kia tukua tā rātou. 9 Ki te pai te kīngi, me tuhituhi kia whakangaromia rātou, ā, māku e pāuna atu kia tekau mano taranata hiriwa ki ngā ringa o te hunga mahi i tā te kīngi mahi, kia kawea ki ngā whare taonga o te kīngi."

10 Nā, ka unuhia e te kīngi tōna mōwhiti i tōna ringa, ā, hoatu ana ki a Hāmana tama a Hamerata Akaki, ki te hoariri o ngā Hūrai. 11 Ā, ka mea te kīngi ki a Hāmana, "Ka hoatu te hiriwa ki a koe, te iwi anō hoki, kia meatia ki a rātou tāu e pai ai."

12 Kātahi ka karangatia ngā karaipi a te kīngi i te marama tuatahi, i te tekau mā toru o ngā rā o taua marama, ā, ka tuhituhia ngā mea katoa i whakahaua e Hāmana ki ngā kāwana a te kīngi, rātou ko ngā kāwana iti o tēnei kāwanatanga, o tēnei kāwanatanga, ki ngā rangatira hoki o tēnei iwi, o tēnei iwi; ki tēnei kāwanatanga, ki tēnei kāwanatanga, he mea whakarite ki tō reira reo; i tuhituhia i runga i te ingoa o Kīngi Ahahueruha, hīri rawa ki te mōwhiti o te kīngi. 13 Nā, ka tukua ngā pukapuka kia kawea e ngā kaikawe pukapuka ki ngā kāwanatanga katoa a te kīngi, kia whakangaromia, kia patua, kia hunā ngā Hūrai katoa, te taitama, me te koroheke, ngā kōhungahunga, me ngā wāhine, kia kotahi tonu te rā, i te tekau mā toru o ngā rā i te tekau mā rua o ngā marama, arā o te marama Arara, kia pāhuatia hoki ō rātou taonga. 14 Ko ngā kōrero i tuhituhia, mō te ture kia hoatu ki ngā kāwanatanga katoa, i whakakitea nuitia ki ngā iwi katoa, kia tatanga ai rātou i taua rā.

15 Haere ana ngā kaikawe pukapuka, he mea whakahohoro e te kupu a te kīngi, i hoatu anō te ture i Huhana, i te whare kīngi. Nā, noho ana te kīngi rāua ko Hāmana ki te inu; raruraru tonu ia te pā, a Huhana.