エステル記 2
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1これらのことの後、アハシュエロス王の怒りが静まると、王はワシュティのこと、彼女がしたこと、そして彼女について定められたことを思い起こした。
1After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.
2そこで王に仕える侍臣たちは言った。「王のために、容姿の美しい若い処女たちを捜させましょう。
2Then the king’s servants who served him said, “Let beautiful young virgins be sought for the king.
3王国の全州に役人を任命し、美しい若い処女たちをスサの宮殿の後宮に集め、女たちを預かる王の宦官ヘガイの管理下に置かせてください。また、彼女たちに身支度の品を与えさせてください。
3Let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the beautiful young virgins to the citadel of Susa, to the women’s house, to the custody of Hegai the king’s eunuch, keeper of the women. Let cosmetics be given them;
4そして王の心にかなう娘を、ワシュティに代わる王妃としてください。」この提案は王の心にかない、王はそのようにした。
4and let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” The thing pleased the king, and he did so.
5さて、スサの宮殿にモルデカイというユダヤ人がいた。彼はベニヤミン人キシュの子シムイの子ヤイルの子であった。
5There was a certain Jew in the citadel of Susa whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite,
6このキシュは、バビロンの王ネブカデネザルがユダの王エコニヤとともに捕らえ移した捕囚の民とともに、エルサレムから連れ去られた者であった。
6who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.
7モルデカイは、叔父の娘ハダサ、すなわちエステルを育てていた。彼女には父も母もなかった。この娘は姿も顔立ちも美しかった。父母の死後、モルデカイは彼女を自分の娘として引き取ったのである。
7He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.
8王の命令と法令が布告され、多くの娘たちがスサの宮殿に集められてヘガイの管理下に置かれたとき、エステルも王宮に連れて来られ、女たちを預かるヘガイの管理下に置かれた。
8So, when the king’s commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together to the citadel of Susa, to the custody of Hegai, Esther was taken into the king’s house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.
9この娘はヘガイの心にかない、その好意を得た。彼はすぐに身支度の品と特別な食事を彼女に与え、王宮から選ばれた七人の侍女も付けた。そして彼女と侍女たちを後宮の最良の場所に移した。
9The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness from him. He quickly gave her cosmetics and her portions of food, and the seven choice maidens who were to be given her out of the king’s house. He moved her and her maidens to the best place in the women’s house.
10エステルは自分の民族も親族も明かさなかった。モルデカイが、明かしてはならないと命じていたからである。
10Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives, because Mordecai had instructed her that she should not make it known.
11モルデカイは毎日、エステルが無事でいるか、これからどうなるかを知ろうとして、後宮の中庭の前を行き来した。
11Mordecai walked every day in front of the court of the women’s house, to find out how Esther was doing, and what would become of her.
12それぞれの娘がアハシュエロス王のもとへ行く番は、十二か月に及ぶ身を清める期間を終えた後に来た。その期間は、六か月を没薬の油で、さらに六か月を香料や女の身支度の品で整えるものだった。
12Each young woman’s turn came to go in to King Ahasuerus after her purification for twelve months (for so were the days of their purification accomplished, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet fragrances and with preparations for beautifying women).
13娘が王のもとへ行くときには、後宮から王宮へ携えて行きたいものは何でも与えられた。
13The young woman then came to the king like this: whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the women’s house to the king’s house.
14夕方に王のもとへ入り、翌朝には、側女たちを預かる王の宦官シャアシュガズの管理する第二の後宮へ移された。王が彼女を気に入り、名を呼んで召さない限り、二度と王のもとへ行くことはなかった。
14In the evening she went, and on the next day she returned into the second women’s house, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch, who kept the concubines. She came in to the king no more, unless the king delighted in her, and she was called by name.
15モルデカイが娘として引き取った、叔父アビハイルの娘エステルの番が来たとき、彼女は女たちを預かる王の宦官ヘガイが勧めたもの以外、何も求めなかった。エステルは見る者すべてから好意を受けた。
15Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.
16エステルがアハシュエロス王の王宮へ迎え入れられたのは、王の治世第七年、第十の月、すなわちテベテの月であった。
16So Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus into his royal house in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
17王はどの女よりもエステルを愛した。彼女はほかのすべての処女にまさって王の好意と慈しみを受けたので、王はその頭に王冠を置き、ワシュティに代わる王妃とした。
17The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she obtained favor and kindness in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.
18王はすべての高官と家臣のために、エステルの祝宴と呼ばれる盛大な宴を催した。また諸州に休日を布告し、王の気前のよさにふさわしく贈り物を配った。
18Then the king made a great feast for all his princes and his servants, even Esther’s feast; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces, and gave gifts according to the king’s bounty.
19処女たちが二度目に集められたとき、モルデカイは王の門に座っていた。
19When the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate.
20エステルはモルデカイに命じられたとおり、まだ自分の親族も民族も明かしていなかった。彼女は養育されていたころと同じように、モルデカイの言いつけに従っていた。
20Esther had not yet made known her relatives nor her people, as Mordecai had commanded her; for Esther obeyed Mordecai, like she did when she was brought up by him.
21そのころ、モルデカイが王の門に座っていると、入口を守る王の宦官ビッグタンとテレシュの二人が怒りを抱き、アハシュエロス王に手を下そうと企てた。
21In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate, two of the king’s eunuchs, Bigthan and Teresh, who were doorkeepers, were angry, and sought to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus.
22この企てを知ったモルデカイは王妃エステルに知らせ、エステルはモルデカイの名によって王に報告した。
22This thing became known to Mordecai, who informed Esther the queen; and Esther informed the king in Mordecai’s name.
23この件は調査され、事実であると判明したので、二人は木に掛けられた。このことは王の前で年代記に記された。
23When this matter was investigated, and it was found to be so, they were both hanged on a gallows; and it was written in the book of the chronicles in the king’s presence.
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