Ester 9

1 Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the month, when the king’s commandment and his decree came near to be put in execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to conquer them, (but it turned out that the opposite happened, that the Jews conquered those who hated them), 2 the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, to lay hands on those who wanted to harm them. No one could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen on all the people. 3 All the princes of the provinces, the local governors, the governors, and those who did the king’s business helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them. 4 For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces, for the man Mordecai grew greater and greater. 5 The Jews struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they wanted to those who hated them. 6 In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men. 7 They killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha, 8 Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha, 9 Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha, 10 the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy, but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.

11 On that day, the number of those who were slain in the citadel of Susa was brought before the king. 12 The king said to Esther the queen, "The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in the citadel of Susa, including the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your further request? It shall be done."

13 Then Esther said, "If it pleases the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Susa to do tomorrow also according to today’s decree, and let Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows."

14 The king commanded this to be done. A decree was given out in Susa; and they hanged Haman’s ten sons. 15 The Jews who were in Susa gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed three hundred men in Susa; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.

16 The other Jews who were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together, defended their lives, had rest from their enemies, and killed seventy-five thousand of those who hated them; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder. 17 This was done on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of that month they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

18 But the Jews who were in Susa assembled together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth days of the month; and on the fifteenth day of that month, they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness. 19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, a holiday, and a day of sending presents of food to one another.

20 Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, both near and far, 21 to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month Adar yearly, 22 as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy. 23 The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them, 24 because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast "Pur", that is the lot, to consume them and to destroy them; 25 but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked plan, which he had planned against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

26 Therefore they called these days "Purim",*9:26 Purim is the Hebrew plural for pur, which means lot. from the word "Pur." Therefore because of all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and that which had come to them, 27 the Jews established and imposed on themselves, on their descendants, and on all those who joined themselves to them, so that it should not fail that they would keep these two days according to what was written and according to its 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 their memory perish from their offspring.*9:28 or, 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 He sent letters to all the Jews in the hundred twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus with words of peace and truth, 31 to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had decreed, and as they had imposed upon themselves and their descendants in the matter of the fastings and their mourning. 32 The commandment of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.

Te Patunga o ngā Hoariri o ngā Hūrai

1 Nā, i te tekau mā rua o ngā marama, arā i te marama Arara, i te tekau mā toru o ngā rā, i te mea ka tata te mahia te kupu a te kīngi, me tāna ture, i te rā anō i hua ai ngā hoariri o ngā Hūrai ka taea e rātou. Otiia, i puta kē anō, nō te mea i taea e ngā Hūrai te hunga i kino ki a rātou. 2 Ka huihui ngā Hūrai ki ō rātou pā i ngā kāwanatanga katoa a Kīngi Ahahueruha, he mea kia pā ai ngā ringa ki te hunga e whai ana kia mate rātou; ā, kīhai tētahi i tū ki tō rātou aroaro; kua tau hoki tō rātou wehi ki ngā iwi katoa. 3 Ā, ko ngā rangatira katoa o ngā kāwanatanga, me ngā kāwana, me ngā kāwana iti, me ngā kaimahi i te mahi a te kīngi, i āwhina i ngā Hūrai; nō te mea kua tau te wehi o Mororekai ki a rātou. 4 He nui hoki a Mororekai i roto i te whare o te kīngi, ā, i pakū tōna rongo ki ngā kāwanatanga katoa; kua nui haere hoki taua tangata, a Mororekai.

5 Nā, patua iho e ngā Hūrai ō rātou hoariri katoa ki te hoari, he parekura, he whakangaromanga; meatia ana e rātou tā rātou i pai ai ki te hunga i kino ki a rātou. 6 I Huhana anō, i te whare kīngi, e rima rau ngā tāngata i patua, i whakangaromia e ngā Hūrai. 7 Ko Parahanarata anō, ko Rarapono, ko Ahapata, 8 ko Porata, ko Araria, ko Arirata, 9 ko Paramahata, ko Arihai, ko Arirai, ko Waietata, 10 ko ngā tama kotahi tekau a Hāmana tama a Hamerata, a te hoariri o ngā Hūrai, patua iho e rātou; kīhai ia ō rātou ringa i pā ki ngā taonga.

11 I taua rā ka kawea ki te kīngi te tokomaha o te hunga i patua ki Huhana, ki te whare kīngi. 12 Nā, ka mea te kīngi ki a Kuīni Ehetere, "E rima rau ngā tāngata kua patua nei e ngā Hūrai, huna rawa ki Huhana, ki te whare kīngi, me ngā tama kotahi tekau a Hāmana; i pēhea rā rātou i ērā kāwanatanga a te kīngi? He aha hoki tāu e mea nei māu? Ka hoatu hoki ki a koe. He aha ake tāu e tono ai? Ā, ka meatia."

13 Anō rā ko Ehetere, "Ki te pai te kīngi, tukua ngā Hūrai i Huhana, āpōpō kia mea i ngā mea o te ture o tēnei rā, kia whakairihia ngā tama kotahi tekau a Hāmana ki runga ki te rākau."

14 Nā, ka mea te kīngi kia meatia tēnei, ā, ka hōmai te ture i Huhana, nā, whakairihia ana ngā tama kotahi tekau a Hāmana. 15 Ā, i huihui ngā Hūrai i Huhana, i te tekau mā whā anō o ngā rā o te marama Arara, ā, e toru rau ngā tāngata i patua e rātou i Huhana; kīhai ia ō rātou ringa i pā ki ngā taonga.

16 Nā, ko ērā atu Hūrai o ngā kāwanatanga a te kīngi, i huihui rātou, ā, tū ana ki runga, kia ora ai rātou. Nā, ka tā ō rātou manawa i ō rātou hoariri, ā, patua iho e rātou o te hunga i kino ki a rātou e whitu tekau mā rima mano; kīhai anō ia ō rātou ringa i pā ki ngā taonga. 17 I meinga tēnei i te tekau mā toru anō o ngā rā o te marama Arara; i te tekau mā whā hoki ka tā te manawa, waiho iho e rātou hei rā mō te kai hākari, mō te hari.

Te Hākari o Pūrimi

18 Engari ko ngā Hūrai i Huhana, i huihui i te tekau mā toru o ngā rā o taua marama, i te tekau mā whā anō, ā, nō te tekau mā rima ka whakatā; waiho iho e rātou hei rā mō te kai hākari, mō te hari.

19 Nā reira ngā Hūrai e noho ana i ngā pā koraha, i ngā pā taiepakore, i mea ai ko te tekau mā whā o ngā rā o te marama Arara hei rā mō te hari, mō te kai hākari, hei rā pai, e tuku tahua ai tētahi ki tētahi.

20 Nā, ka tuhituhia e Mororekai ēnei mea katoa, ā, tukua ana e ia ngā pukapuka ki ngā Hūrai katoa o ngā kāwanatanga katoa a Kīngi Ahahueruha, ki ngā mea e tata ana, ki ngā mea i tawhiti, 21 kia whakapūmautia te tikanga mā rātou, kia whakaritea te tekau mā whā o ngā rā o te marama Arara, me te tekau mā rima anō o ngā rā o taua marama, i ia tau, i ia tau, 22 kia rite ki ngā rā i tā ai te manawa o ngā Hūrai i ō rātou hoariri, ki te marama anō i puta kē ai tō rātou tangi hei hari, tō rātou pōuri hei rā pai, kia meinga hei rā kai hākari, hei rā hari, e tukua ai ētahi wāhi mā tētahi, mā tētahi, me ētahi mea anō mā ngā rawakore.

23 Nā, whakaae ana ngā Hūrai kia mahia ngā mea i tīmataia nei e rātou, ngā mea anō i tuhituhia e Mororekai ki a rātou.

24 He mea mō tā Hāmana tama a Hamerata Akaki, ko te hoariri nei ia o ngā Hūrai katoa; whakaaroa ana e ia he hē mō ngā Hūrai, kia hunā rātou; ā, makā ana e ia he Puri – arā he rota – mō rātou kia whakamōtītia, kia hunā. 25 Nō te taenga ia o taua mea ki te aroaro o te kīngi, ka whakahau ia, nā te pukapuka, kia hoki te whakaaro kino i whakaaroa e ia mō ngā Hūrai ki runga ki tōna pane ake, ā, tāronatia ana ia, rātou ko āna tama, ki runga ki te tārawa. 26 Nā reira i huaina ai aua rā ko Purimi, nō te ingoa nei, nō Puri. Nā reira anō, nō ngā kupu katoa o tēnei pukapuka, nō tā rātou anō i kite ai o tēnei mea, nō ngā mea anō i pā ki a rātou, 27 i whakapūmau ai ngā Hūrai i te tikanga, i whakaae ai hei mea mā rātou, mā ō rātou uri, mā te hunga anō hoki e honoa ki a rātou, hei mea e kore e whakatakā, kia whakaritea ēnei rā e rua, kia pērā anō me te mea i tuhituhia, i te wā anō e tika ai i tēnei tau, i tēnei tau. 28 Kia maharatia anō ēnei rā, kia mahia e ngā whakatupuranga katoa e ngā hapū katoa, e ngā kāwanatanga katoa, e ngā pā katoa, kia kaua anō ēnei rā o Purimi e ngaro i roto i ngā Hūrai, me te maharatanga ki aua rā kia kaua e mahue i ō rātou uri.

29 Kātahi ka tuhituhi a Kuīni Ehetere, tā Apihaira tamāhine, a Mororekai Hūrai anō, whakapau rawa tō rāua mana, kia whakapūmautia tēnei pukapuka tuarua o Purimi. 30 Ā, i tukua e ia he pukapuka ki ngā Hūrai katoa, ki ngā kāwanatanga kotahi rau e rua tekau mā whitu o te kīngitanga o Ahahueruha, nō te rangimārie ngā kupu, nō te pono 31 kia whakapūmautia ēnei rā o Purimi i ngā wā e tika ai, kia pērā me tā Mororekai Hūrai rāua ko Kuīni Ehetere i whakatakoto ai mā rātou; me tā rātou anō i whakatakoto ai hei tikanga mā rātou, mā ō rātou uri, arā ngā nohopuku, me tā rātou tangi. 32 Nā, whakapūmautia ana ēnei meatanga Purimi e te kupu a Ehetere; tuhituhia iho ki te pukapuka.