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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 Conspiracy Against the Jews
1After 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.
2And all the king’s servants who were⚓within the king’s gate bowed and paid homage to Haman, for so the king had commanded concerning him. But Mordecai ⚓would not bow or pay homage.
3Then the king’s servants who were within the king’s gate said to Mordecai, “Why do you transgress the ⚓king’s command?”
4Now it happened, when they spoke to him daily and he would not listen to them, that they told it to Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s words would stand; for Mordecai had told them that he was a Jew.
5When Haman saw that Mordecai ⚓did not bow or pay him homage, Haman was ⚓filled with wrath.
6But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him of the people of Mordecai. Instead, Haman ⚓sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus—the people of Mordecai.
7In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, ⚓they cast Pur (that is, the lot), before Haman to determine the day and the month, until it fell on the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.
8Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of your kingdom; ⚓their laws are different from all other people’s, and they do not keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not fitting for the king to let them remain.
9If it pleases the king, let a decree be written that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who do the work, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.”
10So the king ⚓took ⚓his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the ⚓enemy of the Jews.
11And the king said to Haman, “The money and the people are given to you, to do with them as seems good to you.”
12⚓Then the king’s scribes were called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and a decree was written according to all that Haman commanded—to the king’s satraps, to the governors who were over each province, to the officials of all people, to every province ⚓according to its script, and to every people in their language. ⚓In the name of King Ahasuerus it was written, and sealed with the king’s signet ring.
13And the letters were ⚓sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all the Jews, both young and old, little children and women, ⚓in one day, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and ⚓to plunder their possessions.
14⚓A copy of the document was to be issued as law in every province, being published for all people, that they should be ready for that day.
15The couriers went out, hastened by the king’s command; and the decree was proclaimed in Shushan the citadel. So the king and Haman sat down to drink, but ⚓the city of Shushan was perplexed.