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Mo^nde^kai Tov E^se^te Tengx

¹Mo^nde^kai hiuv duqv cuotv daaih naaiv deix yietc zungv sic ziouc ⟨betv ninh nyei lui-houx,⟩ zuqv jienv la'maah ndie-cou, aengx zorqv saaiv hiaamx jienv m'nqorngv, yangh Susaax Zingh nyei hei-horngc, bungx-sing bungx-qiex nyei nyiemv duqv hnyouv mun haic. ²Ninh mingh taux hungh dinc nyei laatc gaengh mv baac maiv bieqc laatc gu'nyuoz, weic zuqc haaix dauh zuqv jienv la'maah ndie-cou maiv maaih leiz bieqc. ³Yiem norm-norm saengv, da'faanh hungh nyei lingc zunh taux haaix norm dorngx, Yiutai Mienh nzauh duqv kouv haic, mbiouh mbiouh nyei nyiemv. Ninh mbuo yaac zei maiv nyanc haaix nyungc. Mienh camv nyei zuqv jienv la'maah ndie-cou bueix jienv saaiv-ndui.
⁴Fu-sux E^se^te nyei m'sieqv bou caux jien⚓ dorh Mo^nde^kai zoux nyei sic daaih mbuox E^se^te. E^se^te gengh! nzauh haic. Ninh fungx lui-houx mingh bun Mo^nde^kai weic bun ninh yienc nqoi la'maah ndie-cou, mv baac Mo^nde^kai maiv kangv zipv. ⁵E^se^te ziouc heuc dauh dongh hungh diex paaiv daaih fu-sux E^se^te nyei jien, mbuox heuc Haataakv, daaih mbuox ninh mingh lorz Mo^nde^kai muangx gaax ninh nyei sic hnangv haaix nor. Oix hiuv duqv Mo^nde^kai weic haaix diuc hnangv naaic nor zoux.
⁶Haataakv ziouc cuotv taux zingh nyei domh zuangx zaamc yiem hungh dinc nyei laatc gaengh ndaangc lorz Mo^nde^kai. ⁷Mo^nde^kai zueih yietv zueih nyeic nyei gorngv nzengc ninh buangh nyei sic, yaac gorngv Haamaan laengz nyaanh mbu'ziex fungx bieqc hungh diex nyei nyaanh lamz, weic daix nzengc Yiutai Mienh. ⁸Mo^nde^kai aengx zorqv zeiv ceu daaih nyei sou, dongh yiem Susaax Zingh zunh cuotv oix mietc Yiutai Mienh nyei lingc, jiu bun Haataakv, heuc ninh bun E^se^te mangc aengx gorngv mengh bun ninh muangx. Mo^nde^kai yaac mbuox Haataakv kuinx E^se^te mingh taux hungh diex nyei nza'hmien tov ninh korv-lienh, jouh hungh diex tengx caux hungh maac juangc fingx nyei mienh.
⁹Haataakv nzuonx mingh aengx zorqv Mo^nde^kai nyei waac mbuox nzengc E^se^te. ¹⁰E^se^te ziouc paaiv Haataakv dorh naaiv deix waac mingh mbuox Mo^nde^kai. ¹¹Ninh gorngv, “Hungh diex nyei zuangx jien caux yiem hungh diex gunv norm-norm saengv nyei baeqc fingx, maiv gunv m'jangc m'sieqv, da'faanh maiv zeiz hungh diex heuc bieqc hungh dinc gu'nyuoz nyei ting mingh buangh hungh diex, se mienh ganh bieqc nor, maaih nduqc diuh lingc hnangv. Oix zuqc zorqv wuov laanh mienh daix guangc. Kungx maaih yietc nyungc za'eix haih bun duqv maengc cuotv hnangv, se hungh diex sung ninh nyei jiem-biaav zipv wuov laanh mienh. Mv baac yie aeqv, duqv faah ziepc hnoi hungh diex maiv heuc yie bieqc mingh buangh.”
¹²Mienh dorh E^se^te nyei waac mingh mbuox Mo^nde^kai. ¹³Mo^nde^kai ziouc bun naaiv deix waac nzuonx mingh mbuox E^se^te, “Maiv dungx hnamv weic meih yiem naaiv hungh dinc, beiv meih caux Yiutai Mienh yietc zungv, se meih ganh gauh haih biaux duqv ndutv. ¹⁴Ih zanc se gorngv doix naaiv deix ziangh hoc meih sekv-sekv nyei yiem, zungv haih maaih za'eix yiem ganh norm dorngx daaih tengx Yiutai Mienh duqv njoux. Mv baac meih ganh caux meih nyei die nyei muoz-doic oix zuqc mietc nzengc. Maiv maaih haaix dauh hiuv duqv mv baac nziex meih duqv zoux hungh maac se weic cuotv naaiv deix sic nyei ziangh hoc.”
¹⁵E^se^te bun mienh mingh wuih Mo^nde^kai nyei waac gorngv, ¹⁶“Gunv mingh lorz da'faanh yiem Susaax Zingh nyei Yiutai Mienh gapv zunv weic yie zei maiv nyanc haaix nyungc. Buo hnoi buo muonz maiv dungx nyanc, maiv dungx hopv haaix nyungc. Yie caux yie nyei m'sieqv bou yaac oix hnangv meih mbuo nor zei. Nqa'haav yie ziouc bieqc mingh lorz hungh diex maiv gunv se dorngc leiz. Se gorngv yie zuqc daic, cinh ninh daic aqv.”
¹⁷Mo^nde^kai ziouc mingh aqv, yaac ei jienv E^se^te paaiv nyei yietc zungv waac zoux.

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Mordecai Persuades Esther to Help

¹When Mordecai learned of all that had been done, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the city, wailing loudly and bitterly. ²But he went only as far as the king’s gate, because no one clothed in sackcloth was allowed to enter it. ³In every province to which the edict and order of the king came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping and wailing. Many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
⁴When Esther’s eunuchs and female attendants came and told her about Mordecai, she was in great distress. She sent clothes for him to put on instead of his sackcloth, but he would not accept them. ⁵Then Esther summoned Hathak, one of the king’s eunuchs assigned to attend her, and ordered him to find out what was troubling Mordecai and why.
⁶So Hathak went out to Mordecai in the open square of the city in front of the king’s gate. ⁷Mordecai told him everything that had happened to him, including the exact amount of money Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury for the destruction of the Jews. ⁸He also gave him a copy of the text of the edict for their annihilation, which had been published in Susa, to show to Esther and explain it to her, and he told him to instruct her to go into the king’s presence to beg for mercy and plead with him for her people.
⁹Hathak went back and reported to Esther what Mordecai had said. ¹⁰Then she instructed him to say to Mordecai, ¹¹“All the king’s officials and the people of the royal provinces know that for any man or woman who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned the king has but one law: that they be put to death unless the king extends the gold scepter to them and spares their lives. But thirty days have passed since I was called to go to the king.”
¹²When Esther’s words were reported to Mordecai, ¹³he sent back this answer: “Do not think that because you are in the king’s house you alone of all the Jews will escape. ¹⁴For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?”
¹⁵Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai: ¹⁶“Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my attendants will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.”
¹⁷So Mordecai went away and carried out all of Esther’s instructions.