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Esther 6

English Standard Version ESV

1 On that night the king could not sleep. And he gave orders to bring the book of memorable deeds, the chronicles, and they were read before the king.

2 And it was found written how Mordecai had told about Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, and who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.

3 And the king said, “What honor or distinction has been bestowed on Mordecai for this? ” The king’s young men who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him. ”

4 And the king said, “Who is in the court? ” Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the king’s palace to speak to the king about having Mordecai hanged on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

5 And the king’s young men told him, “Haman is there, standing in the court. ” And the king said, “Let him come in. ”

6 So Haman came in, and the king said to him, “What should be done to the man whom the king delights to honor? ” And Haman said to himself, “Whom would the king delight to honor more than me? ”

7 And Haman said to the king, “For the man whom the king delights to honor,

8 let royal robes be brought, which the king has worn, and the horse that the king has ridden, and on whose head a royal crown is set.

9 And let the robes and the horse be handed over to one of the king’s most noble officials. Let them dress the man whom the king delights to honor, and let them lead him on the horse through the square of the city, proclaiming before him: ‘Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor. ’”

10 Then the king said to Haman, “Hurry; take the robes and the horse, as you have said, and do so to Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king’s gate. Leave out nothing that you have mentioned. ”

11 So Haman took the robes and the horse, and he dressed Mordecai and led him through the square of the city, proclaiming before him, “Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor. ”

12 Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate. But Haman hurried to his house, mourning and with his head covered.

13 And Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of the Jewish people, you will not overcome him but will surely fall before him. ”

14 While they were yet talking with him, the king’s eunuchs arrived and hurried to bring Haman to the feast that Esther had prepared.

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 Noctem illam duxit rex insomnem, iussitque sibi afferri historias et annales priorum temporum. Quae cum illo praesente legerentur,

2 ventum ad illum locum ubi scriptum erat quo modo nunciasset Mardochaeus insidias Bagathan, et Thares eunuchorum, regem Assuerum iugulare cupientium.

3 Quod cum audisset rex, ait: Quid pro hac fide honoris ac praemii Mardochaeus consecutus est? Dixerunt ei servi illius ac ministri: Nihil omnino mercedis accepit.

4 Statimque rex, Quis est, inquit, in atrio? Aman quippe interius atrium domus regiae intraverat, ut suggereret regi, et iuberet Mardochaeum affigi patibulo, quod ei fuerat praeparatum.

5 Responderunt pueri: Aman stat in atrio. Dixitque rex: Ingrediatur.

6 Cumque esset ingressus, ait illi: Quid debet fieri viro, quem rex honorare desiderat? Cogitans autem in corde suo Aman, et reputans quod nullum alium rex, nisi se, vellet honorare,

7 respondit: Homo, quem rex honorare cupit,

8 debet indui vestibus regiis, et imponi super equum, qui de sella regis est, et accipere regium diadema super caput suum,

9 et primus de regiis principibus, ac tyrannis teneat equum eius, et per plateam civitatis incedens clamet, et dicat: Sic honorabitur, quemcumque voluerit rex honorare.

10 Dixitque ei rex: Festina, et sumpta stola et equo, fac, ut locutus es, Mardochaeo Iudaeo, qui sedet ante fores palatii. Cave ne quidquam de his, quae locutus es, praetermittas.

11 Tulit itaque Aman stolam et equum, indutumque Mardochaeum in platea civitatis, et impositum equo praecedebat, atque clamabat: Hoc honore condignus est, quemcumque rex voluerit honorare.

12 Reversusque Mardochaeus ad ianuam palatii: et Aman festinavit ire in domum suam, lugens et operto capite:

13 narravitque Zares uxori suae, et amicis omnia quae evenissent sibi. Cui responderunt sapientes, quos habebat in consilio, et uxor eius: Si de semine Iudaeorum Mardochaeus, ante quem cadere coepisti, non poteris ei resistere, sed cades in conspectu eius.

14 Adhuc illis loquentibus, venerunt eunuchi regis, et cito eum ad convivium, quod regina paraverat, pergere compulerunt.