1 Now in the twelfth month, that is , the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king’s commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;) 2 The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon all people. 3 And all the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the deputies, and officers of the king, helped the Jews; because the fear of Mordecai fell upon them. 4 For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater. 5 Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them. 6 And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men. 7 And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha, 8 And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha, 9 And Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha, 10 The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand. 11 On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king.
12 ¶ And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces? now what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what is thy request further? and it shall be done. 13 Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto this day’s decree, and let Haman’s ten sons be hanged upon the gallows. 14 And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman’s ten sons. 15 For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand. 16 But the other Jews that were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey, 17 On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness. 18 But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness. 19 Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.
20 ¶ And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far, 21 To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly, 22 As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor. 23 And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them; 24 Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is , the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them; 25 But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. 26 Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them, 27 The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year; 28 And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed. 29 Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim. 30 And he sent the letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth, 31 To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed , according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry. 32 And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.
Jodeǁîn ge ǁîn di khākhoena ra hîkākā
1 Disiǃnonaǀaǁî tsēs, disiǀgamǀaǁî ǁkhâb Adari dis ge ge hā; ǁnā tsēs gao-aob di ǂanǂans tsî ǂnûiǂgās nî dīǂuihes, ǁîs ain ge di khākhoena ǁînan nî dan ti ǂâi hâ isa. Xawe i ge ge ī Jodeǁîn ge khākhoen âna dan ǃkhaisa. 2 Jodeǁîn ge gao-aob Ahasverosi di ǀkharigu hoagu ǃnâ ǁîn di ǃādi ǃnâ ge ǀhaoǀhaosen, ǁnān ǁîna ra hîkākā ǂgaonan nî ǃkhamǃoaga. Khoe-i xare-i ge ǁîna ge mâǃoa ǁoa i, ǁaedi hoadi ge ǁîna gere ǃao amaga. 3 ǁNās ǀgui tamas, ǀkharigu di ǂgaeǂgui-aogu, gao-aob di ǂamkhoegu, ǃhūǃkhōmâi-aogu tsî gao-aosi ǃoabas ǃnâ hâgu on ge Jodeǁîna gere hui, Mordekaiba gu gere ǃao xui-ao, 4 ǁîb ge ǀgapi ǃharosa gao-ommi ǃnâ ūhâ i amaga. Hoaraga ǀkharigu ǃnâ i ge ge ǂansa mâtikō ǀgaibab ge Mordekaiba gao-ommi ǃnâ ǃkhōǃoa tsîb aiǃâb ǃoa ǀgui gere ǀgai ǃkhaisa. 5 ǁNātin ge Jodeǁîna ǂgui khākhoen âna gôagu ǀkha ǃgam tsî ge hîkākā. ǁÎn ge khākhoen ân ǀkha ǂâin ra khami gere sîsen.
6 Danaǃās Susas ǀguis ǃnân ge Jodeǁîna korokaidisi khoena ge ǃgam. 7 ǁÎn ge ǁkhāti, Parsandatab, Dalfonni, Aspatab, 8 Poratab, Adaliab, Aridatab, 9 Parmastab, Arisaib, Aridaib tsî Vaisatab tsîgu 10 disi ǀgôagu Hamanni, Hamedatab ôab, Jodeǁîn di khākhoeb diga ge ǃgam. Xawe xū-e ǃnari tama ge i.
11 ǁNā tsēs ǁkhās aib ge gao-aoba ǀgaisa ǃās Susas ǃnâ ge ǃgamhe khoen di ǃgôaba ge ǂanǂanhe. 12 Ob ge gao-aos Esters tawa sī tsî ǁîs ǃoa ge mî: “Susas ǀguis ǃnân ge Jodeǁîna korokaidisi khoena go ǃgam tsî ǁkhāti disi ǀgôagu Hamanni digu ona. Tare-en ǁnâi nau ǀkharigu gaosis digu ǃnâ go dī! ǀNî xū-i noxopas ǂhâba hâ-e hâ? Māhes ge nî. Tare-es ǃaruǀî ra ǂgao? ǁÎ-es ge nî dībahe.”
13 Os ge Estersa ge ǃeream: “Gao-aotsa iga ǃgâibao, Jodeǁîn Susas ǃnâ hân mā-am în nau Jodeǁîn nētsēn goro dī khami ǁîn tsîna ǁari ǀkhaobasen. Tsî Hamanni di disi ǀgôagu di sorode, a di ǂgāhaib ai ǂgāmâihe” 14 Ob ge gao-aoba ge mîmā tsîs ge nē ǂanǂansa Susas ǃnâ ge māǂuihe tsî di ge Hamanni di disi ǀgôagu sorode hoa khoen nî mûse ge ǂgāmâihe. 15 Disihakaǀaǁî tsēs Adari dis ain ge ǁkhāti Susas di Jodeǁîna ǀhao tsî ǃnonakaidisi khoena ge ǃgam, xawe xū-e ǃnari tama ge i.
16 Nau ǀkharigu gaosis digu ǃnâ ge hâ i Jodeǁîn ge aiǂhomisen tsî ge ǁkhaubasen. ǁÎn ge ǁîn di khākhoen xa hûdisikoroǀaǀoadisi khoena ge ǃgam, xawe xū-e ǃnari tama ge i. 17 Nē ǃkhais ge disiǃnonaǀaǁî tsēs, ǁkhâb Adari dis ai ge ī. Disihakaǀaǁî tsēs ain ge Jodeǁîna ge sâ tsîn ge ǁnā tsēsa ǁâudīb tsî dâb di tsēse ge dī. 18 Xawe Susas di Jodeǁîn ge disiǃnonaǀas tsî disihakaǀas ǁnā ǁkhâb dis kōse ge ǀhaoǀhaosen în ǀkhaobasen tsîn ge disikoroǀas ai ǀgui ge sâ tsî ǁnā tsēsa ǁâudīb tsî dâb di tsēse ge dī. 19 ǁNā-amagan ge Jodeǁîn, ǂkhari ǃādi ǃnâ ǁan hâna disihakaǀaǁî tsēs Adarǁkhâb disa sâb di tsēs ase ra ǃgapaǀî tsî ǁîsa ǁâudīb tsî dâb di tsēse tsēdī tsî ǂûxūna ra sîbagu.
Purims ǁâudīb
20 Mordekaib ge nē ǃnaeǃkhaide xoamâi kai tsî hoaraga Jodeǁîn, ǀgūse tsî ǃnūse hoaraga ǀkharigu gao-aob Ahasverosi digu ǃnâ ǁan hâna sîba 21 tsî ǁîna, disihakaǀas tsî disikoroǀas tsîra Adari diran kurikorobe nî tsēdi ǃkhaisa ge mîmā. 22 Nēra ge Jodeǁîn ge ǁîn di khākhoena xu ǃnora kaisen tsēra. Nē ǁkhâb ǃnâs ge tsûaǂgaob tsî ǃoab tsîn ge ǃgâiaǂgaob tsî dâb ǃnâ ǀkharaǀkharahesa, xui-ao an nē tsēra ǁâudīb tsî dâb di tsēse dī tsî ǂûna sîbagu tsî ǀgâsana ǀkhaexūna sîba. 23 Nētin ge Jodeǁîna Mordekaib ge ǁîna xoaba ǂkhanis ǃoa, tsoatsoa-ūn ge hâ i ǁnaetiba ǂnûiǂgās ase ge ūǃoa.
24 Hamanni, Hamedatab Agagǁîb ôab, Jodeǁîn hoan di khākhoeb ge Jodeǁînab nî ǃgamǂuisa ge ǂâibasen hâ i tsîb ge Purs, ǁnās ge ǀkhūsa ge ao, ǁînab nî hîkākā tsēsab nî ǂanǂuise. 25 Xawe Esters ge gao-aob tawa a sī, ob ge xoasa mîmā-e ge mā, îb Hamanni ge Jodeǁînab nî dī-ūse ǂâibasen hâ i tsūdība ǁîb ǂûb ai hā. ǁÎb tsî ǁîb ôagu tsîn ge ǂgāhaib ai ge ǂgāmâihe. 26 ǁNā-amaga di ge ǁnā kaitsēde Purim ti ra ǀonǂgaihe, Pur ti mîs ǃoa, Mordekaib ge xoa sîǂkhanis ǃaroma tsî aitsaman ge mû xūn tsî ǁîn ǀkha ge īn ǃaroman 27 ge Jodeǁîna ǁîn ai ge ū, ǁîn tsî ǁîn surib tsî ǁîn ǀkha ga ǀgui khoen hoan, nē tsēra kurikorobe nî tsēdī ǃkhaisa. Nēs ge xoaǁguigu ǃoa dīhe tsî mîmâisa ǁaeb ai nîra ī. 28 Nē tsēra ge ǂâiǂâisenhe tsî nî tsēdīhe mâ ǃhaos hoas tsî mâ surib hoab ǃnâ, mâ ǀkharib tsî mâ ǃās hoas ǃnâ. Nē tsēra Purims dira ge Jodeǁîn ǃnâ tsēdīǀûhe tide tsî ǁîn di surib xa ǁkhāti ǀuruhe tide.
29 ǁNās khaoǃgâs ge gao-aos Esters, Abigaili ôasa Jodeǁîb, Mordekaib di huib ǀkha ǀgamǁî sîǂkhanis ǃnâ ǀgaisase Purims xa ge ǁapoǁapo. 30 Mordekaib ge hoa Jodeǁîn, ǀguikaidisi tsî ǀgamdisihûǀa ǀkharigu gao-aob Ahasverosi digu ǃnâ hân hoana sîǂkhanide sîba tsî ǁîna ǂkhîb tsî ǂgomǂgomsan nî ǃkhais tsîna ge ǁkhoreba. 31 ǁÎn ge ge mîmāhe, nē ǁâudīgu Purims digan mîmâisa ǁaeb ai nî tsēdīsa, Mordekaib, Jodeǁîb tsî gao-aos Esters tsîra xan ge ǁguiǁapobahe khami; tsîn ge nē xoaǁguigu, ǂûtama* hâs tsî ǀkhomas diga aitsama ǁîn tsî ǁîn di surib ai ū khami. 32 Esters mîmās ais ge xoaǁguigu Purimǁâudīb digu ge ǂnûiǂgāhesa tsî gu ge xamisa ǂkhanis ǃnâ ge xoaǁguihe.
