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1 Igitur duodecimi mensis, quem Adar vocari ante iam diximus, tertiadecima die, quando cunctis Iudaeis interfectio parabatur, et hostes eorum inhiabant sanguini, versa vice Iudaei superiores esse coeperunt, et se de adversariis vindicare.
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Now in the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's command and edict were about to be executed, on the very day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to get the mastery over them, but which had been changed to a day when the Jews should get the mastery over their foes,
2 Congregatique sunt per singulas civitates, oppida, et loca ut extenderent manum contra inimicos, et persecutores suos. Nullusque ausus resistere, eo quod omnes populos magnitudinis eorum formido penetrarat.
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the Jews gathered in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasu-e'rus to lay hands on such as sought their hurt. And no one could make a stand against them, for the fear of them had fallen upon all peoples.
3 Nam et provinciarum indices, et duces, et procuratores, omnisque dignitas, quae singulis locis ac operibus praeerat, extollebant Iudaeos timore Mardochaei:
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All the princes of the provinces and the satraps and the governors and the royal officials also helped the Jews, for the fear of Mor'decai had fallen upon them.
4 quem principem esse palatii, et plurimum posse cognoverant: fama quoque nominis eius crescebat quotidie, et per cunctorum ora volitabat.
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For Mor'decai was great in the king's house, and his fame spread throughout all the provinces; for the man Mor'decai grew more and more powerful.
5 Itaque percusserunt Iudaei inimicos suos plaga magna, et occiderunt eos, reddentes eis quod sibi paraverant facere:
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So the Jews smote all their enemies with the sword, slaughtering, and destroying them, and did as they pleased to those who hated them.
6 in tantum ut etiam in Susan quingentos viros interficerent, extra decem filios Aman Agagitae hostis Iudaeorum: quorum ista sunt nomina:
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In Susa the capital itself the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men,
7 Pharsandatha, et Delphon, et Esphatha,
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and also slew Par-shan-da'tha and Dalphon and Aspa'tha
8 et Phoratha, et Adalia, et Aridatha,
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and Pora'tha and Ada'lia and Arida'tha
9 et Phermesta et Arisai, et Aridai, et Iezatha.
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and Parmash'ta and Ar'isai and Ar'idai and Vaiza'tha,
10 Quos cum occidissent, praedas de substantiis eorum tangere noluerunt.
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the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammeda'tha, the enemy of the Jews; but they laid no hand on the plunder.
11 Statimque numerus eorum, qui occisi erant in Susan, ad regem relatus est.
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That very day the number of those slain in Susa the capital was reported to the king.
12 Qui dixit reginae: In urbe Susan interfecerunt Iudaei quingentos viros, et alios decem filios Aman: quantam putas eos exercere caedem in universis provinciis? Quid ultra postulas, et quid vis ut fieri iubeam?
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And the king said to Queen Esther, "In Susa the capital the Jews have slain five hundred men and also the ten sons of Haman. What then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces! Now what is your petition? It shall be granted you. And what further is your request? It shall be fulfilled."
13 Cui illa respondit: Si regi placet, detur potestas Iudaeis, ut sicut fecerunt hodie in Susan, sic et cras faciant, et decem filii Aman in patibulis suspendantur.
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And Esther said, "If it please the king, let the Jews who are in Susa be allowed tomorrow also to do according to this day's edict. And let the ten sons of Haman be hanged on the gallows."
14 Praecepitque rex ut ita fieret. Statimque in Susan pependit edictum, et decem filii Aman suspensi sunt.
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So the king commanded this to be done; a decree was issued in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hanged.
15 Congregatis Iudaeis quartadecima die mensis Adar, interfecti sunt in Susan trecenti viri: nec eorum ab illis direpta substantia est.
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The Jews who were in Susa gathered also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and they slew three hundred men in Susa; but they laid no hands on the plunder.
16 Sed et per omnes provincias, quae ditioni regis subiacebant, pro animabus suis steterunt Iudaei, interfectis hostibus ac persecutoribus suis: in tantum ut septuagintaquinque millia occisorum implerentur, et nullus de substantiis eorum quidquam contingeret.
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Now the other Jews who were in the king's provinces also gathered to defend their lives, and got relief from their enemies, and slew seventy-five thousand of those who hated them; but they laid no hands on the plunder.
17 Dies autem tertiusdecimus mensis Adar primus apud omnes interfectionis fuit, et quartadecima die caedere desierunt. Quem constituerunt esse sollemnem, ut in eo omni tempore deinceps vacarent epulis, gaudio atque conviviis.
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This was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested and made that a day of feasting and gladness.
18 At hi, qui in urbe Susan caedem exercuerant, tertiodecimo et quartodecimo die eiusdem mensis in caede versati sunt: quintodecimo autem die percutere desierunt. Et idcirco eundem diem constituerunt sollemnem epularum atque laetitiae.
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But the Jews who were in Susa gathered on the thirteenth day and on the fourteenth, and rested on the fifteenth day, making that a day of feasting and gladness.
19 Hi vero Iudaei, qui in oppidis non muratis ac villis morabantur, quartumdecimum diem mensis Adar conviviorum et gaudii decreverunt, ita ut exultent in eo, et mittant sibi mutuo partes epularum et ciborum.
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Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the open towns, hold the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day for gladness and feasting and holiday-making, and a day on which they send choice portions to one another.
20 Scripsit itaque Mardochaeus omnia haec, et litteris comprehensa misit ad Iudaeos, qui in omnibus regis provinciis morabantur, tam in vicino positis, quam procul,
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And Mor'decai recorded these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasu-e'rus, both near and far,
21 ut quartamdecimam et quintamdecimam diem mensis Adar pro festis susciperent, et revertente semper anno sollemni celebrarent honore:
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enjoining them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fifteenth day of the same, year by year,
22 quia in ipsis diebus se ulti sunt Iudaei de inimicis suis, et luctus atque tristitia in hilaritatem gaudiumque conversa sunt, essentque dies isti epularum atque laetitiae, et mitterent sibi invicem ciborum partes, et pauperibus munuscula largirentur.
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as the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending choice portions to one another and gifts to the poor.
23 Susceperuntque Iudaei in sollemnem ritum cuncta quae eo tempore facere coeperant, et quae Mardochaeus litteris facienda mandaverat.
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So the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mor'decai had written to them.
24 Aman enim, filius Amadathi stirpis Agag, hostis et adversarius Iudaeorum, cogitavit contra eos malum, ut occideret illos, atque deleret: et misit phur, quod nostra lingua vertitur in sortem.
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For Haman the Ag'agite, the son of Hammeda'tha, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is the lot, to crush and destroy them;
25 Et postea ingressa Esther ad regem, obsecrans ut conatus eius, litteris regis irriti fierent: et malum, quod contra Iudaeos cogitaverat, reverteretur in caput eius. Denique et ipsum et filios eius affixerunt cruci,
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but when Esther came before the king, he gave orders in writing that his wicked plot which he had devised against the Jews should come upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
26 atque ex illo tempore dies isti appellati sunt phurim, id sortium: eo quod phur, id sors, in urnam missa fuerit. Et cuncta, quae gesta sunt, epistolae, id libri huius volumine continentur:
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Therefore they called these days Purim, after the term Pur. And therefore, because of all that was written in this letter, and of what they had faced in this matter, and of what had befallen them,
27 quaeque sustinuerunt, et quae deinceps immutata sunt, susceperunt Iudaei super se et semen suum, et super cunctos, qui religioni eorum voluerunt copulari, ut nulli liceat duos hos dies absque sollemnitate transigere: quos scriptura testatur, et certa expetunt tempora, annis sibi iugiter succedentibus.
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the Jews ordained and took it upon themselves and their descendants and all who joined them, that without fail they would keep these two days according to what was written and at the time appointed every year,
28 Isti sunt dies, quos nulla umquam delebit oblivio: et per singulas generationes cunctae in toto orbe provinciae celebrabunt: nec ulla civitas, in qua dies phurim, id sortium, non observentur a Iudaeis, et ab eorum progenie, quae his ceremoniis obligata est.
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that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, in every family, province, and city, and that these days of Purim should never fall into disuse among the Jews, nor should the commemoration of these days cease among their descendants.
29 Scripseruntque Esther regina filia Abihail, et Mardochaeus Iudaeus etiam secundam epistolam, ut omni studio dies ista sollemnis sanciretur in posterum.
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Then Queen Esther, the daughter of Ab'ihail, and Mor'decai the Jew gave full written authority, confirming this second letter about Purim.
30 et miserunt ad omnes Iudaeos, qui in centum viginti septem provinciis regis Assueri versabantur, ut haberent pacem, et susciperent veritatem,
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Letters were sent to all the Jews, to the hundred and twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasu-e'rus, in words of peace and truth,
31 observantes Dies sortium, et suo tempore cum gaudio celebrarent: sicut constituerant Mardochaeus et Esther, et illi observanda susceperunt a se, et a semine suo ieiunia, et clamores, et Sortium dies,
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that these days of Purim should be observed at their appointed seasons, as Mor'decai the Jew and Queen Esther enjoined upon the Jews, and as they had laid down for themselves and for their descendants, with regard to their fasts and their lamenting.
32 et omnia, quae libri huius, qui vocatur Esther, historia continentur.
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The command of Queen Esther fixed these practices of Purim, and it was recorded in writing.
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