Est 9:1Igitur duodecimī mēnsis, quem Adar vocārī ante jam dīximus, tertiādecimā diē, quandō cūnctīs Jūdaeīs interfectiō parābātur, et hostēs eōrum inhiābant sanguinī, versā vice Jūdaeī superiōrēs esse coepērunt, et sē dē adversāriīs vindicāre.So on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which we have already said before is called Adar, when slaughter was being prepared for all the Jews, and their enemies were gaping for their blood, the tables were turned, and the Jews began to be the stronger, and to avenge themselves on their adversaries. Est 9:2Congregātīque sunt per singulās cīvitātēs, oppida, et loca, ut extenderent manum contrā inimīcōs, et persecūtōrēs suōs.And they gathered together in every city, town, and place, to stretch out a hand against their enemies and persecutors. Est 9:2Nūllusque ausus est resistere, eō quod omnēs populōs magnitūdinis eōrum formīdō penetrārat.And no one dared to resist, because the dread of their greatness had pierced all peoples. Est 9:3Nam et prōvinciārum jūdicēs, et ducēs, et prōcūrātōrēs, omnisque dignitās quae singulīs locīs ac operibus praeerat, extollēbant Jūdaeōs timōre Mardochaeī, quem prīncipem esse palātiī, et plūrimum posse cognōverant: fāma quoque nōminis ejus crēscēbat quotīdiē, et per cūnctōrum ōra volitābat.For both the judges of the provinces, and the leaders, and the procurators, and every rank which presided over the several places and works, were exalting the Jews out of fear of Mordecai, whom they had learned to be the chief of the palace, and to have very great power: the fame of his name too was growing daily, and flying through the mouths of all.
Est 9:5Itaque percussērunt Jūdaeī inimīcōs suōs plagā magnā, et occīdērunt eōs, reddentēs eīs quod sibi parāverant facere: in tantum ut etiam in Susan quīngentōs virōs interficerent, extrā decem fīliōs Aman Agagītae hostis Jūdaeōrum: quōrum ista sunt nōmina: Pharsandatha, et Delphon, et Esphatha, et Phoratha, et Adalia, et Aridatha, et Phermesta, et Arisai, et Aridai, et Jezatha.And so the Jews struck their enemies with a great blow, and killed them, paying back to them what they had prepared to do to them: so much so that even in Susa they killed five hundred men, besides the ten sons of Haman the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews: whose names are these: Pharsandatha, and Delphon, and Esphatha, and Phoratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha, and Phermesta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Jezatha. Est 9:10Quōs cum occīdissent, praedās dē substantiīs eōrum tangere nōluērunt.And when they had killed them, they would not touch booty from their possessions. Est 9:11Statimque numerus eōrum, quī occīsī erant in Susan, ad rēgem relātus est.And at once the number of those who had been killed in Susa was reported to the king. Est 9:12Quī dīxit rēgīnae: In urbe Susan interfēcērunt Jūdaeī quīngentōs virōs, et aliōs decem fīliōs Aman: quantam putās eōs exercēre caedem in ūniversīs prōvinciīs?He said to the queen: "In the city of Susa the Jews have killed five hundred men, and besides ten sons of Haman: how great a slaughter do you think they are carrying out in all the provinces?
Est 9:12Quid ultrā postulās, et quid vīs ut fierī jubeam?What more do you ask, and what do you want me to order to be done?" Est 9:13Cui illa respondit: Sī rēgī placet, dētur potestās Jūdaeīs, ut sīcut fēcērunt hodiē in Susan, sīc et crās faciant, et decem fīliī Aman in patibulīs suspendantur.She answered him: "If it pleases the king, let power be given to the Jews, that just as they have done today in Susa, so they may do tomorrow too, and that the ten sons of Haman be hanged on gibbets." Est 9:14Praecēpitque rēx ut ita fieret.And the king commanded that it be done so. Est 9:14Statimque in Susan pependit ēdictum, et decem fīliī Aman suspēnsī sunt.And at once in Susa the edict was hung up, and the ten sons of Haman were hanged. Est 9:15Congregātīs Jūdaeīs Quārtādecimā diē mēnsis Adar, interfectī sunt in Susan trecentī virī: nec eōrum ab illīs dīrepta substantia est.The Jews having gathered on the fourteenth day of the month Adar, three hundred men were killed in Susa: nor were their possessions plundered by them.
Est 9:16Sed et per omnēs prōvinciās quae ditiōnī rēgis subjacēbant, prō animābus suīs stetērunt Jūdaeī, interfectīs hostibus ac persecūtōribus suīs: in tantum ut septuāgintā quīnque mīllia occīsōrum implērentur, et nūllus dē substantiīs eōrum quidquam contingeret.But also through all the provinces which lay under the king's rule, the Jews stood for their lives, their enemies and persecutors having been killed: so much so that seventy-five thousand of the slain were made up, and no one touched anything of their possessions. Est 9:17Diēs autem tertiusdecimus mēnsis Adar prīmus apud omnēs interfectiōnis fuit, et Quārtādecimā diē caedere dēsiērunt.Now the thirteenth day of the month Adar was the first day of slaughter among them all, and on the fourteenth day they ceased to kill. Est 9:17Quem cōnstituērunt esse solemnem, ut in eō omnī tempore deinceps vacārent epulīs, gaudiō, atque convīviīs.This they appointed to be solemn, so that on it, for all time thereafter, they should be free for feasts, joy, and banquets. Est 9:18At hī, quī in urbe Susan caedem exercuerant, tertiōdecimō et quārtōdecimō diē ejusdem mēnsis in caede versātī sunt: quīntōdecimō autem diē percutere dēsiērunt.But those who had carried out the slaughter in the city of Susa were engaged in slaughter on the thirteenth and fourteenth day of the same month: but on the fifteenth day they ceased to strike.
Est 9:18Et idcircō eumdem diem cōnstituērunt solemnem epulārum atque laetitiae.And for that reason they appointed that same day as a solemn day of feasts and gladness. Est 9:19Hī vērō Jūdaeī, quī in oppidīs nōn mūrātīs ac vīllīs morābantur, quārtumdecimum diem mēnsis Adar convīviōrum et gaudiī dēcrēvērunt, ita ut exultent in eō, et mittant sibi mūtuō partēs epulārum et cibōrum.But those Jews who lived in unwalled towns and villages decreed the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of banquets and joy, so that they exult on it, and send to one another portions of feasts and of foods. Est 9:20Scrīpsit itaque Mardochaeus omnia haec, et litterīs comprehēnsa mīsit ad Jūdaeōs quī in omnibus rēgis prōvinciīs morābantur, tam in vīcīnō positīs, quam procul, ut quārtamdecimam et quīntamdecimam diem mēnsis Adar prō fēstīs susciperent, et revertente semper annō solemnī celebrārent honōre: quia in ipsīs diēbus sē ultī sunt Jūdaeī dē inimīcīs suīs, et lūctus atque trīstitia in hilaritātem gaudiumque conversa sunt, essentque diēs istī epulārum atque laetitiae, et mitterent sibi invicem cibōrum partēs, et pauperibus mūnuscula largīrentur.So Mordecai wrote all these things, and, having put them into letters, sent them to the Jews who lived in all the king's provinces, both those placed nearby and those far off, that they should take up the fourteenth and fifteenth day of the month Adar as festivals, and, as the year always returned, celebrate them with solemn honour: because on these days the Jews avenged themselves on their enemies, and mourning and sadness were turned into cheerfulness and joy, and that these should be days of feasts and gladness, and they should send to one another portions of food, and lavish little gifts on the poor.
Est 9:23Suscēpēruntque Jūdaeī in solemnem rītum cūncta quae eō tempore facere coeperant, et quae Mardochaeus litterīs facienda mandāverat.And the Jews took up as a solemn rite all the things which they had begun to do at that time, and which Mordecai had commanded by letters to be done. Est 9:24Aman enim, fīlius Amadathī stirpis Agag, hostis et adversārius Jūdaeōrum, cōgitāvit contrā eōs malum, ut occīderet illōs atque dēlēret: et mīsit phur, quod nostrā linguā vertitur in sortem.For Haman, son of Hammedatha, of the stock of Agag, the enemy and adversary of the Jews, devised evil against them, to kill and destroy them: and he cast pur, which in our language is translated as lot. Est 9:25Et posteā ingressa est Esther ad rēgem, obsecrāns ut cōnātūs ejus litterīs rēgis irritī fierent, et malum quod contrā Jūdaeōs cōgitāverat, reverterētur in caput ejus.And afterwards Esther went in to the king, begging that his attempts might be made void by the king's letters, and that the evil which he had devised against the Jews might return upon his own head. Est 9:25Dēnique et ipsum et fīliōs ejus affīxērunt crucī, atque ex illō tempore diēs istī appellātī sunt phurim, id est sortium: eō quod phur, id est sors, in urnam missa fuerit.Finally they fixed both him and his sons to a cross, and from that time these days have been called Purim, that is, of lots: because pur, that is, a lot, had been cast into an urn.
Est 9:26Et cūncta quae gesta sunt, epistolae, id est, librī hujus volūmine, continentur: quaeque sustinuērunt, et quae deinceps immūtāta sunt, suscēpērunt Jūdaeī super sē et sēmen suum, et super cūnctōs quī religiōnī eōrum voluērunt cōpulārī, ut nūllī liceat duōs hōs diēs absque solemnitāte trānsigere, quōs scrīptūra testātur, et certa expetunt tempora, annīs sibi jūgiter succēdentibus.And all the things that were done are contained in the letter, that is, in the volume of this book: and what they endured, and what was changed afterwards, the Jews took upon themselves and their seed, and upon all who wished to be joined to their religion, so that it should be lawful for no one to pass these two days without solemnity, which the writing attests, and which fixed times require, the years following one another continually. Est 9:28Istī sunt diēs, quōs nūlla umquam dēlēbit oblīviō, et per singulās generātiōnēs cūnctae in tōtō orbe prōvinciae celebrābunt: nec est ūlla cīvitās, in quā diēs phurim, id est sortium, nōn observentur ā Jūdaeīs, et ab eōrum prōgeniē, quae hīs caeremōniīs obligāta est.These are the days which no forgetfulness will ever blot out, and through each generation all the provinces in the whole world will celebrate them: nor is there any city in which the days of Purim, that is, of lots, are not observed by the Jews, and by their offspring, which is bound to these ceremonies.
Est 9:29Scrīpsēruntque Esther rēgīna fīlia Abihail, et Mardochaeus Jūdaeus, etiam secundam epistolam, ut omnī studiō diēs ista solemnis sancīrētur in posterum: et mīsērunt ad omnēs Jūdaeōs quī in centum vīgintī septem prōvinciīs rēgis Assuērī versābantur, ut habērent pācem, et susciperent vēritātem, observantēs diēs sortium, et suō tempore cum gaudiō celebrārent: sīcut cōnstituerant Mardochaeus et Esther, et illī observanda suscēpērunt ā sē, et ā sēmine suō, jējūnia, et clamōrēs, et sortium diēs, et omnia quae librī hujus, quī vocātur Esther, historiā continentur.And Queen Esther, daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote also a second letter, so that with all zeal this solemn day might be ratified for the future: and they sent to all the Jews who were living in the one hundred and twenty-seven provinces of King Ahasuerus, that they should have peace, and receive the truth, observing the days of lots, and celebrate them in their time with joy: just as Mordecai and Esther had appointed, and they took up, to be observed by themselves and by their seed, fasts, and cries, and the days of lots, and all the things which are contained in the history of this book, which is called Esther.