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Esther 3

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 Post haec rex Assuerus exaltavit Aman filium Amadathi, qui erat de stirpe Agag: et posuit solium eius super omnes principes, quos habebat.

2 Cunctique servi regis, qui in foribus palatii versabantur, flectebant genua, et adorabant Aman: sic enim praeceperat eis imperator. solus Mardochaeus non flectebat genu, neque adorabat eum.

3 Cui dixerunt pueri regis, qui ad fores palatii praesidebant: Cur praeter ceteros non observas mandatum regis?

4 Cumque hoc crebrius dicerent, et ille nollet audire, nunciaverunt Aman, scire cupientes utrum perseveraret in sententia: dixerat enim eis se esse Iudaeum.

5 Quod cum audisset Aman, et experimento probasset quod Mardochaeus non flecteret sibi genu, nec se adoraret, iratus valde,

6 et pro nihilo duxit in unum Mardochaeum mittere manus suas: audierat enim quod esset gentis Iudaeae. magisque voluit omnem Iudaeorum, qui erant in regno Assueri, perdere nationem.

7 Mense primo (cuius vocabulum Nisan) anno duodecimo regni Assueri, missa sors in urnam, quae Hebraice dicitur phur, coram Aman, quo die et quo mense gens Iudaeorum deberet interfici: et exivit mensis duodecimus, qui vocatur Adar.

8 Dixitque Aman regi Assuero: populus per omnes provincias regni tui dispersus, et a se mutuo separatus, novis utens legibus et ceremoniis, insuper et regis scita contemnens. Et optime nosti quod non expediat regno tuo ut insolescat per licentiam.

9 si tibi placet, decerne, ut pereat, et decem millia talentorum appendam arcariis gazae tuae.

10 Tulit ergo rex annulum, quo utebatur, de manu sua, et dedit eum Aman filio Amadathi de progenie Agag, hosti Iudaeorum,

11 dixitque ad eum: Argentum, quod tu polliceris, tuum sit. de populo age quod tibi placet.

12 Vocatique sunt scribae regis mense primo Nisan, tertiadecima die eiusdem mensis: et scriptum est, ut iusserat Aman, ad omnes satrapas regis, et iudices provinciarum, diversarumque gentium, ut quaeque gens legere poterat, et audire pro varietate linguarum ex nomine regis Assueri: et litterae signatae ipsius annulo,

13 missae sunt per cursores regis ad universas provincias ut occiderent atque delerent omnes Iudaeos, a puero usque ad senem, parvulos, et mulieres, uno die, hoc tertiodecimo mensis duodecimi, qui vocatur Adar, et bona eorum diriperent.

14 Summa autem epistolarum haec fuit, ut omnes provinciae scirent, et pararent se ad praedictam diem.

15 Festinabant cursores, qui missi erant, regis imperium explere. Statimque in Susan pependit edictum, rege et Aman celebrante convivium, et cunctis Iudaeis, qui in urbe erant, flentibus.

New American Standard Bible NAS

1 After these events King Ahasuerus promoted Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him and established his authority over all the princes who were with him.

2 All the king's servants who were at the king's gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman; for so the king had commanded concerning him. But Mordecai neither bowed down nor paid homage.

3 Then the king's servants who were at the king's gate said to Mordecai, "Why are you transgressing the king's command?"

4 Now it was when they had spoken daily to him and he would not 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 neither bowed down nor paid homage to him, Haman was filled with rage.

6 But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him who the people of Mordecai were; therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.

7 In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, Pur, that is the lot, was cast before Haman from day to day and from month to month, until the twelfth month, that is the month Adar.

8 Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of all other people and they do not observe the king's laws, so it is not in the king's interest to let them remain.

9 "If it is pleasing to the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who carry on the king's business, to put into the king's treasuries."

10 Then 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.

11 The king said to Haman, "The silver is yours, and the people also, to do with them as you please ."

12 Then the king's scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and it was written just as Haman commanded to the king's satraps, to the governors who were over each province and to the princes of each people, each province according to its script, each people according to its language, being written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king's signet ring.

13 Letters were sent by couriers to all the king's provinces to destroy, to kill and to annihilate all the Jews, both young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to seize their possessions as plunder.

14 A copy of the edict to be issued as law in every province was published to all the peoples so that they should be ready for this day.

15 The couriers went out impelled by the king's command while the decree was issued at the citadel in Susa; and while the king and Haman sat down to drink, the city of Susa was in confusion.