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1这事以后，亚哈随鲁王抬举哈米大他的儿子哈曼，使他高升，叫他的爵位超过与他同事的一切臣宰。After these events, King Xerxes honored Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him to a position above all the princes who were with him.
2在朝门的一切臣仆都跪拜哈曼，因为王如此吩咐；惟独末底改不跪不拜。All the royal servants at the king’s gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman, because the king had commanded that this be done for him. But Mordecai would not bow down or pay homage.
3在朝门的臣仆问末底改说：“你为何违背王的命令呢？”Then the royal servants at the king’s gate asked Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the command of the king?”
4他们天天劝他，他还是不听，他们就告诉哈曼，要看末底改的事站得住站不住，因他已经告诉他们自己是犹大人。Day after day they warned him, but he would not comply. So they reported it to Haman to see whether Mordecai’s behavior would be tolerated, since he had told them he was a Jew.
5哈曼见末底改不跪不拜，他就。When Haman saw that Mordecai would not bow down or pay him homage, he was filled with rage.
6他们已将末底改的本族告诉哈曼；他以为下手害末底改一人是小事，就要灭绝亚哈随鲁王通国所有的犹大人，就是末底改的本族。And when he learned the identity of Mordecai’s people, he scorned the notion of laying hands on Mordecai alone. Instead, he sought to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the kingdom of Xerxes.
7亚哈随鲁王十二年正月，就是，人在哈曼面前，按日日月月掣，就是，要定何月何日为吉，择定了十二月，就是。In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, the Pur (that is, the lot) was cast before Haman to determine a day and month. And the lot fell on the twelfth month, the month of Adar.
8哈曼对亚哈随鲁王说：“有一种民散居在王国各省的民中；他们的律例与万民的律例不同，也不守王的律例，所以容留他们与王无益。Then Haman informed King Xerxes, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples of every province of your kingdom. Their laws are different from everyone else’s, and they do not obey the king’s laws. So it is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them.
9王若以为美，请下旨意灭绝他们；我就捐一万银子交给掌管的人，纳入王的府库。”If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will deposit ten thousand talents of silver into the royal treasury to pay those who carry it out.”
10于是王从自己手上摘下戒指给犹大人的仇敌—亚甲族哈米大他的儿子哈曼。So the king removed the signet ring from his finger and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.
11王对哈曼说：“这银子仍赐给你，这民也交给你，你可以随意待他们。”“Keep your money,” said the king to Haman. “These people are given to you to do with them as you please.”
12正月十三日，就召了王的书记来，照着哈曼一切所吩咐的，用各省的文字、各族的方言，奉亚哈随鲁王的名写旨意，传与总督和各省的省长，并各族的首领；又用王的戒指盖印，On the thirteenth day of the first month, the royal scribes were summoned and the order was written exactly as Haman commanded the royal satraps, the governors of each province, and the officials of each people, in the script of each province and the language of every people. It was written in the name of King Xerxes and sealed with the royal signet ring.
13交给传到王的各省，吩咐将犹大人，无论老少妇女孩子，在一日之间，十二月，就是亚达月十三日，全然剪除，杀戮灭绝，并夺他们的财为掠物。And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.
14抄录这旨意，颁行各省，宣告各族，使他们预备等候那日。A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued in every province and published to all the people, so that they would be ready on that day.
15驿卒奉王命急忙起行，旨意也传遍书珊城。王同哈曼坐下饮酒，书珊城的民却都慌乱。The couriers left, spurred on by the king’s command, and the edict was issued in the citadel of Susa. Then the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was in confusion.