Ester 10

¹Kral, krallığı üzerine, hem karadaki hem de denizdeki vergileri yazdı.

²Onun gücü ve yiğitliği, krallığının zenginliği ve görkemi işte Pers ve Med krallarının kitabında anı için yazılmıştır.

³Mardohe ise kral Artahşasta'nın yerine geçiyordu; krallıkta büyüktü, Yahudiler tarafından onurlandırılmıştı ve tüm ulusu için davranışını sürdüren biri olarak seviliyordu.

⁰3a Mardohe dedi ki: Bunlar Tanrı katından gerçekleşti.

⁰3b Zira gördüğüm düşü ve bu sözleri anımsadım, çünkü onlardan hiçbir söz boşa çıkmadı.

⁰3c Küçük pınar ki nehre dönüştü, ışık, güneş ve çokça su vardı; nehir, kralın evlenip kraliçe kıldığı Ester'dir.

⁰3d İki ejderha ise ben ve Haman'ım.

⁰3e Uluslar ise Yahudilerin adını yok etmek için bir araya gelmiş olanlardır.

⁰3f Ulusum ise, Tanrı'ya haykıran ve kurtulan İsrail'dir; RAB kendi halkını kurtardı, RAB bizi tüm bu kötülüklerden esirgedi ve Tanrı, uluslar arasında hiç görülmemiş işaretleri ve büyük mucizeleri gerçekleştirdi.

⁰3g Bu nedenle, biri Tanrı'nın halkı için, diğeri ise tüm uluslar için olmak üzere iki kura belirledi.

⁰3h Bu iki kura, Tanrı'nın önünde ve tüm uluslar içinde, vakit, zaman ve yargı günü için geldi.

⁰3i Tanrı kendi halkını anımsadı ve mirasını akladı.

⁰3j Bu günler, Adar ayının on dördüncü ve on beşinci gününde, halkı İsrail içinde, kuşaklar boyunca sonsuza dek, Tanrı'nın önünde toplanma, sevinç ve coşkuyla onlar için var olacaktır.

⁰3k Batlamyus ve Kleopatra'nın krallığının dördüncü yılında, kâhin ve Levili olduğunu söyleyen Dositeos ve oğlu Batlamyus, Kudüs'tekilerden Batlamyus oğlu Lisimakos'un çevirdiğini söyledikleri, Phrurai hakkındaki bu mektubu getirdiler.

¹Ἔγραψεν δὲ ὁ βασιλεὺς τέλη ἐπὶ τὴν βασιλείαν τῆς τε γῆς καὶ τῆς θαλάσσης.

²καὶ τὴν ἰσχὺν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀνδραγαθίαν πλοῦτόν τε καὶ δόξαν τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ ἰδοὺ γέγραπται ἐν βιβλίῳ βασιλέων Περσῶν καὶ Μήδων εἰς μνημόσυνον.

³ὁ δὲ Μαρδοχαῖος διεδέχετο τὸν βασιλέα Ἀρταξέρξην καὶ μέγας ἦν ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ καὶ δεδοξασμένος ὑπὸ τῶν Ιουδαίων καὶ φιλούμενος διηγεῖτο τὴν ἀγωγὴν παντὶ τῷ ἔθνει αὐτοῦ. 3α καὶ εἶπεν Μαρδοχαῖος παρὰ τοῦ θεοῦ ἐγένετο ταῦτα. 3β ἐμνήσθην γὰρ περὶ τοῦ ἐνυπνίου οὗ εἶδον περὶ τῶν λόγων τούτων οὐδὲ γὰρ παρῆλθεν ἀπ’ αὐτῶν λόγος. 3γ ἡ μικρὰ πηγή ἣ ἐγένετο ποταμὸς καὶ ἦν φῶς καὶ ἥλιος καὶ ὕδωρ πολύ Εσθηρ ἐστὶν ὁ ποταμός ἣν ἐγάμησεν ὁ βασιλεὺς καὶ ἐποίησεν βασίλισσαν. 3δ οἱ δὲ δύο δράκοντες ἐγώ εἰμι καὶ Αμαν. 3ε τὰ δὲ ἔθνη τὰ ἐπισυναχθέντα ἀπολέσαι τὸ ὄνομα τῶν Ιουδαίων. 3ζ τὸ δὲ ἔθνος τὸ ἐμόν οὗτός ἐστιν Ισραηλ οἱ βοήσαντες πρὸς τὸν θεὸν καὶ σωθέντες καὶ ἔσωσεν κύριος τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐρρύσατο κύριος ἡμᾶς ἐκ πάντων τῶν κακῶν τούτων καὶ ἐποίησεν ὁ θεὸς τὰ σημεῖα καὶ τὰ τέρατα τὰ μεγάλα ἃ οὐ γέγονεν ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν. 3η διὰ τοῦτο ἐποίησεν κλήρους δύο ἕνα τῷ λαῷ τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ἕνα πᾶσι τοῖς ἔθνεσιν. 3θ καὶ ἦλθον οἱ δύο κλῆροι οὗτοι εἰς ὥραν καὶ καιρὸν καὶ εἰς ἡμέραν κρίσεως ἐνώπιον τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς ἔθνεσιν. 3ι καὶ ἐμνήσθη ὁ θεὸς τοῦ λαοῦ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐδικαίωσεν τὴν κληρονομίαν αὐτοῦ. 3κ καὶ ἔσονται αὐτοῖς αἱ ἡμέραι αὗται ἐν μηνὶ Αδαρ τῇ τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτῃ καὶ τῇ πεντεκαιδεκάτῃ τοῦ αὐτοῦ μηνὸς μετὰ συναγωγῆς καὶ χαρᾶς καὶ εὐφροσύνης ἐνώπιον τοῦ θεοῦ κατὰ γενεὰς εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα ἐν τῷ λαῷ αὐτοῦ Ισραηλ. 3λ ἔτους τετάρτου βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου καὶ Κλεοπάτρας εἰσήνεγκεν Δωσίθεος ὃς ἔφη εἶναι ἱερεὺς καὶ Λευίτης καὶ Πτολεμαῖος ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ τὴν προκειμένην ἐπιστολὴν τῶν Φρουραι ἣν ἔφασαν εἶναι καὶ ἑρμηνευκέναι Λυσίμαχον Πτολεμαίου τῶν ἐν Ιερουσαλημ.

¹And the king levied a [tax] upon his [kingdom] both by land and sea.

²And [as for] his strength and valour, and the wealth and glory of his kingdom, behold, they are written in the book of the Persians and Medes, for a memorial.

³And Mardochaeus was viceroy to king Artaxerxes, and was a great man in the kingdom, and honoured by the Jews, and passed his life beloved of all his nation. 3α [And Mardochaeus said. These things have been done of God. 3β For I remember the dream which I had concerning these matters: for not one particular of them has failed. 3γ [There was] the little fountain, which became a river, and there was light, and the sun, and much water. The river is Esther, whom the king married, and made queen. 3δ And the two serpents are I and Aman. 3ε And the nations are those [nations] that combined to destroy the name of the Jews. 3ζ But [as for] my nation, this is Israel, [even] they that cried to God, and were delivered: for the Lord delivered his people, and the Lord rescued us out of all these calamities; and God wrought such signs and great wonders as have not been done among the nations. 3η Therefore did he ordain two lots, one for the people of God, and one for all the [other] nations. 3θ And these two lots came for an appointed season, and for a day of judgment, before God, and for all the nations. 3ι And God remembered his people, and vindicated his inheritance. 3κ And they shall observe these days, in the month Adar, on the fourteenth and on the fifteenth [day] of the month, with an assembly, and joy and gladness before God, throughout the generations for ever among his people Israel. 3λ In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemy and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said that he was a priest and a Levite, and Ptolemy his son, brought in the published letter of Phrurae, which they said existed, and [which] Lysimachus the son of Ptolemy, who was in Jerusalem, had interpreted.]