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Hamaa npaaj tswvyim phem txuv cov Yutai
1Dhau tej xwm txheej nuav lawm, vaajntxwv Ahaxu‑ela muab Hamentatha tug tub Hamaa kws yog tuabneeg Aka tsaa ua luj tuaj, hab muab koob meej rua hab muab nwg lub rooj txawb kuas nyob sab dhau cov thawj kws nrug nwg nyob suavdawg.
2Vaajntxwv cov tub teg tub taw kws nyob ntawm vaajntxwv lub rooj loog suavdawg txhus caug hawm Hamaa, vem yog vaajntxwv has kuas hawm nwg le hov. Tassws Mauntekhai tsw txhus caug lossws hawm Hamaa.
3Vaajntxwv cov tub teg tub taw ntawm vaajntxwv lub rooj loog has rua Mauntekhai tas, “Ua caag koj tsw ua lawv le vaajntxwv has?”
4Puab pheej naj nub has rua Mauntekhai los nwg kuj tsw noog puab has, puab txawm moog has rua Hamaa, saib Mauntekhai tej lug yuav kov yeej los tsw yeej vem yog nwg has tas nwg yog tuabneeg Yutai.
5Thaus Hamaa pum tas Mauntekhai tsw txhus caug hab tsw pe nwg, Hamaa txawm npau tawg heev.
6Tassws nwg pum tas qhov kws nteg Mauntekhai ib leeg xwb tsw txaus nwg sab. Vem muaj tuabneeg has rua nwg tas Mauntekhai haiv tuabneeg yog haiv twg, Hamaa txhad nrhav kev txuv cov Yutai suavdawg kws yog Mauntekhai haiv tuabneeg, thoob plawg lub tebchaws kws Ahaxu‑ela kaav.
7Xyoo kaum ob kws Ahaxu‑ela ua vaajntxwv mas lub ib hlis kws yog lub hli Nixa puab khov kuam Pulee⚓ taab meeg Hamaa saib nub twg hab lub hli twg zoo tua cov Yutai, mas saib tau nub kaum peb⚓ lub kaum ob hlis kws yog lub hli Antas.
8Tes Hamaa txawm has rua vaajntxwv Ahaxu‑ela tas, “Muaj ib haiv tuabneeg nyob thoob plawg txhua qhov hab faib moog nyob txuam rua huv tej tuabneeg huv txhua lub xeev kws koj kaav. Puab tej kevcai txawv ib tsoom tuabneeg suavdawg tej kevcai, hab puab tsw ua lawv le vaajntxwv tej kevcai, qhov kws tso puab nyob le nuav tsw muaj qaabhau daabtsw rua vaajntxwv le.
9Yog vaajntxwv pum zoo, thov tso cai kuas muab cov tuabneeg nuav ua puam tsuaj taag, mas kuv yuav pub ib vaam talaa nyaj⚓ rua huv vaajntxwv tej txhaab nyaj es muab rua cov kws ua vaajntxwv daag num.”
10Vaajntxwv txawm hle nwg lub nplhaib txaam txwm ntawm nwg txhais teg muab rua Hamentatha tug tub Hamaa kws yog tuabneeg Aka hab yog cov Yutai tug yeeb ncuab.
11Vaajntxwv has rua Hamaa tas, “Kuv muab cov tuabneeg hov hab puab tej nyaj txag cob nkaus rua koj, koj ua rua puab lawv le koj pum zoo.”
12Mas hu vaajntxwv cov tub sau ntawv tuaj rua nub xab kaum peb lub ib hlis, mas puab sau tsaab kevcai lawv le kws Hamaa has txhua yaam xaa moog rua cov thawj kws vaajntxwv tsaa kaav tebchaws hab rua cov kws kaav txhua lub xeev huvsw hab moog rua txhua haiv tuabneeg cov thawj, yog xaa moog rua txhua lub xeev, ua txhua lub xeev le npe ntawv hab txhua haiv tuabneeg le lug, sau ua vaajntxwv Ahaxu‑ela npe hab ntaus hom thawj kws yog vaajntxwv lub nplhaib txaam txwm rua.
13Muaj tuabneeg xaa tej ntawv nuav moog tseb rua txhua lub xeev kws vaajntxwv kaav kuas tua ntxuav cov Yutai quas laug quas hluas quaspuj hab mivnyuas suavdawg taag nrho rua ib nub, yog nub xab kaum peb lub kaum ob hlis kws yog lub hli Antas, hab txeeb hlo puab cuab txhaj cuab taam huvsw.
14Tsaab kevcai nuav yuav muab tshaaj tawm rua huv txhua lub xeev kuas ib tsoom tuabneeg suavdawg npaaj txhwj rua nub hov.
15Cov tuabneeg xaa xuv hov maaj nroog moog lawv le vaajntxwv has, hab tsaab kevcai kuj tshaaj tawm rua huv lub nroog Xuxa. Vaajntxwv hab Hamaa nyob tsawg haus cawv txwv maab, tassws lub nroog Xuxa kub ntxhuv heev.
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Haman’s Plot to Destroy the Jews
1After these events, King Xerxes honored Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him and giving him a seat of honor higher than that of all the other nobles.
2All the royal officials at the king’s gate knelt down and paid honor to Haman, for the king had commanded this concerning him. But Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor.
3Then the royal officials at the king’s gate asked Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the king’s command?”
4Day after day they spoke to him but he refused to comply. Therefore they told Haman about it to see whether Mordecai’s behavior would be tolerated, for he had told them he was a Jew.
5When Haman saw that Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor, he was enraged.
6Yet having learned who Mordecai’s people were, he scorned the idea of killing only Mordecai. Instead Haman looked for a way to destroy all Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the whole kingdom of Xerxes.
7In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, the pur (that is, the lot) was cast in the presence of Haman to select a day and month. And the lot fell on⚓ the twelfth month, the month of Adar.
8Then Haman said to King Xerxes, “There is a certain people dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom who keep themselves separate. Their customs are different from those of all other people, and they do not obey the king’s laws; it is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them.
9If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will give ten thousand talents⚓ of silver to the king’s administrators for the royal treasury.”
10So the king took his signet ring from his finger and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.
11“Keep the money,” the king said to Haman, “and do with the people as you please.”
12Then on the thirteenth day of the first month the royal secretaries were summoned. They wrote out in the script of each province and in the language of each people all Haman’s orders to the king’s satraps, the governors of the various provinces and the nobles of the various peoples. These were written in the name of King Xerxes himself and sealed with his own ring.
13Dispatches were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces with the order to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—on a single day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.
14A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued as law in every province and made known to the people of every nationality so they would be ready for that day.
15The couriers went out, spurred on by the king’s command, and the edict was issued in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was bewildered.