エステル記 3
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1これらのことの後、アハシュエロス王はアガグ人ハメダタの子ハマンを昇進させ、重用し、王とともにいるすべての高官より高い地位に就かせた。
1After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.
2王の門にいた王の家臣たちは皆、ハマンの前にひざまずき、ひれ伏して敬意を表した。王が彼についてそう命じていたからである。しかしモルデカイは、ひざまずくことも、ひれ伏すこともしなかった。
2All the king’s servants who were in the king’s gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman, for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai didn’t bow down or pay him homage.
3そこで王の門にいた家臣たちはモルデカイに言った。「なぜ王の命令に背くのか。」
3Then the king’s servants who were in the king’s gate said to Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the king’s commandment?”
4彼らは毎日語りかけたが、モルデカイは耳を貸さなかった。そこで彼らは、その言い分が通るかどうかを見るため、ハマンに告げた。モルデカイが自分はユダヤ人だと明かしていたからである。
4Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and he didn’t listen to them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s reason would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew.
5ハマンは、モルデカイが自分の前にひざまずかず、ひれ伏しもしないのを見て、激しい怒りに満たされた。
5When Haman saw that Mordecai didn’t bow down nor pay him homage, Haman was full of wrath.
6だがモルデカイ一人に手を下すだけでは足りないと考えた。モルデカイの民族を知らされていたので、ハマンはアハシュエロスの全王国にいるすべてのユダヤ人、すなわちモルデカイの民を滅ぼそうと企てた。
6But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai’s people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai’s people.
7アハシュエロス王の治世第十二年、第一の月、すなわちニサンの月に、ハマンの前でプル、すなわちくじが日ごと、月ごとに投げられ、第十二の月、すなわちアダルの月が選ばれた。
7In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, and chose the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.
8ハマンはアハシュエロス王に言った。「王国の全州で、諸民族の間に散らされ、離れ離れに暮らしている一つの民族がいます。その法はどの民の法とも異なり、王の法令にも従いません。この民を放置することは、王の利益になりません。
8Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different from other people’s. They don’t keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not for the king’s profit to allow them to remain.
9王がよしとされるなら、彼らを滅ぼす勅令をお書きください。私は一万タラントの銀を、王の事務をつかさどる者たちに量り渡し、王の宝物庫に納めさせます。」
9If it pleases the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who are in charge of the king’s business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.”
10王は手から印章の指輪を外し、ユダヤ人の敵であるアガグ人ハメダタの子ハマンに渡した。
10The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.
11王はハマンに言った。「その銀も、その民も、あなたに任せる。あなたのよいと思うようにせよ。」
11The king said to Haman, “The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.”
12第一の月の十三日に王の書記官たちが召集され、ハマンの命じたことがすべて、王の総督、各州の長官、各民族の高官に宛てて、それぞれの州の文字、それぞれの民の言語で書かれた。書状はアハシュエロス王の名で記され、王の印章の指輪で封印された。
12Then the king’s scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king’s local governors, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and it was sealed with the king’s ring.
13書状は急使によって王の全州に送られた。それは、第十二の月、すなわちアダルの月の十三日という一日のうちに、若者も老人も、子どもも女も、すべてのユダヤ人を滅ぼし、殺し、絶やし、その財産を略奪せよというものだった。
13Letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions.
14この文書の写しは、すべての民がその日に備えるよう、各州で法令として公示された。
14A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day.
15急使たちは王命によって急ぎ出発し、法令はスサの宮殿でも発布された。王とハマンは座って酒を飲んでいたが、スサの町は混乱に包まれた。
15The couriers went out in haste by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Susa was perplexed.
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