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And king Ahasuerus spoke and said to Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he that has filled his heart to do so?

וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֖אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.

וַתֹּ֣אמֶר־ (וַ) va. “and”

And the king returned out of the palace garden into the house of the banquet of wine, and Haman was fallen upon the couch on which Esther was. And the king said, Will he even force the queen before me in the house? The word went forth out of the king's mouth, and they covered Haman's face.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold, also, the gallows fifty cubits high, that Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, stands in the house of Haman. And the king said, Hang him on it!

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֥אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. And the king's wrath was appeased.

וַיִּתְלוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”

And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.

וַיָּ֨סַר (וַ) va “and”וַֽיִּתְּנָ֖הּ (וַֽ) va “and”וַתָּ֧שֶׂם (וַ) va. “and”

And Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device which he had devised against the Jews.

וַתּ֣וֹסֶף (וַ) va. “and”וַתְּדַבֵּר֙ (וַ) va. “and”וַתִּפֹּ֖ל (וַ) va. “and”וַתֵּ֣בְךְּ (וַ) va. “and”וַתִּתְחַנֶּן־ (וַ) va. “and”

And the king held out the golden sceptre toward Esther. And Esther arose and stood before the king,

וַיּ֤וֹשֶׁט (וַ) va “and”וַתָּ֣קָם (וַ) va. “and”וַֽתַּעֲמֹ֖ד (וַֽ) va. “and”

and said, If it please the king and if I have found grace before him, and the thing seem right to the king, and I be pleasing in his sight, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews that are in all the king's provinces.

וַ֠תֹּאמֶר (וַ֠) Va. “and”וְכָשֵׁ֤ר (וְ) ve. “and”

For how shall I endure to see the evil that shall befall my people? and how shall I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?

וְֽרָאִ֔יתִי (וְֽ) ve. “and”וְֽרָאִ֔יתִי (וְֽ) ve. “and”

And king Ahasuerus said to queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he stretched forth his hand against the Jews.

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Then were the king's scribes called at that time, in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth [ergänzt: day] thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded, to the Jews, and to the satraps, and the governors, and the princes of the provinces which are from India even to Ethiopia, a hundred and twenty-seven provinces, to every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people according to their language, and to the Jews according to their writing and according to their language.

וַיִּקָּרְא֣וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיִּכָּתֵ֣ב (וַ) va “and”

And he wrote in the name of king Ahasuerus, and sealed [ergänzt: it] with the king's ring, and sent letters by couriers on horseback riding on coursers, horses of blood reared in the breeding studs:

וַיִּכְתֹּ֗ב (וַ) va “and”וַיַּחְתֹּ֖ם (וַ) va “and”וַיִּשְׁלַ֣ח (וַ) va “and”

And the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword and slaughter and destruction, and did what they would to those that hated them.

וַיַּכּ֤וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּֽעֲשׂ֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

And the king said to Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the fortress, and the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? And what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee; and what is thy request further? and it shall be done.

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

And Esther said, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews that are in Shushan to do to-morrow also according to this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.

וַתֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va. “and”

And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַתִּנָּתֵ֥ן (וַ) va. “and”

And the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but they laid not their hand on the prey.

וַיִּֽקָּהֲל֞וּ (וַ) va “and”וַיַּֽהַרְג֣וּ (וַ) va “and”

And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews near and far that were in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus,

וַיִּכְתֹּ֣ב (וַ) va “and”וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח (וַ) va “and”

And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written to them.

וְקִבֵּל֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

For Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the oppressor of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them and to destroy them;

וְהִפִּ֥יל (וְ) ve. “and”

and when [ergänzt: Esther] came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head; and they hanged him and his sons on the gallows.

וְתָל֥וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

the Jews ordained and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves to them, so that it should not fail, that they would observe these two days according to their writing and according to their fixed time, every year;

וְקִבְּל֣וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

And queen Esther the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority to confirm this second letter of Purim.

וַ֠תִּכְתֹּב (וַ֠) va. “and”

And he sent letters to all the Jews, to the hundred and twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, words of peace and truth,

וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח (וַ) va “and”