H9001–/וַ–v

And the king Ahasuerus saith, yea, he saith to Esther the queen, `Who `is' he -- this one? and where `is' this one? -- he whose heart hath filled him to do so?'

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

And Esther saith, `The man -- adversary and enemy -- `is' this wicked Haman;' and Haman hath been afraid at the presence of the king and of the queen.

וַתֹּ֣אמֶר־ (וַ) va. “and”

And the king hath turned back out of the garden of the house unto the house of the banquet of wine, and Haman is falling on the couch on which Esther `is', and the king saith, `Also to subdue the queen with me in the house?' the word hath gone out from the mouth of the king, and the face of Haman they have covered.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

And Harbonah, one of the eunuchs, saith before the king, `Also lo, the tree that Haman made for Mordecai, who spake good for the king, is standing in the house of Haman, in height fifty cubits;' and the king saith, `Hang him upon it.'

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

And they hang Haman upon the tree that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king hath lain down.

וַיִּתְלוּ֙ (וַ) va “and”

and the king turneth aside his signet, that he hath caused to pass away from Haman, and giveth it to Mordecai, and Esther setteth Mordecai over the house of Haman.

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

And Esther addeth, and speaketh before the king, and falleth before his feet, and weepeth, and maketh supplication to him, to cause the evil of Haman the Agagite to pass away, and his device that 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 holdeth out to Esther the golden sceptre, and Esther riseth, and standeth before the king,

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

and saith, `If to the king `it be' good, and if I have found grace before him, and the thing hath been right before the king, and I `be' good in his eyes, let it be written to bring back the letters -- a device of Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite -- that he wrote to destroy the Jews who `are' in all provinces of the king,

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

for how do I endure when I have looked on the evil that doth find my people? and how do I endure when I have looked on the destruction of my kindred?'

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

And the king Ahasuerus saith to Esther the queen, and to Mordecai the Jew, `Lo, the house of Haman I have given to Esther, and him they have hanged on the tree, because that he put forth his hand on the Jews,

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

And the scribes of the king are called, at that time, in the third month -- it `is' the month of Sivan -- in the three and twentieth of it, and it is written, according to all that Mordecai hath commanded, unto the Jews, and unto the lieutenants, and the governors, and the heads of the provinces, that `are' from Hodu even unto Cush, seven and twenty and a hundred provinces -- province and province according to its writing, and people and people according to its tongue, and unto the Jews according to their writing, and according to their tongue.

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

And he writeth in the name of the king Ahasuerus, and sealeth with the signet of the king, and sendeth letters by the hand of the runners with horses, riders of the dromedary, the mules, the young mares,

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

And the Jews smite among all their enemies -- a smiting of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction -- and do with those hating them according to their pleasure,

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

and the king saith to Esther the queen, `In Shushan the palace have the Jews slain and destroyed five hundred men, and the ten sons of Haman; in the rest of the provinces of the king what have they done? and what `is' thy petition? and it is given to thee; and what thy request again? and it is done.'

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

And Esther saith, `If to the king `it be' good, let it be given also to-morrow, to the Jews who `are' in Shushan, to do according to the law of to-day; and the ten sons of Haman they hang on the tree.'

וַתֹּ֤אמֶר (וַ) va. “and”

And the king saith -- `to be done so;' and a law is given in Shushan, and the ten sons of Haman they have hanged.

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

And the Jews who `are' in Shushan are assembled also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and they slay in Shushan three hundred men, and on the prey they have not put forth their hand.

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

And Mordecai writeth these things, and sendeth letters unto all the Jews who `are' in all provinces of the king Ahasuerus, who are near and who are far off,

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

And the Jews have received that which they had begun to do, and that which Mordecai hath written unto them,

וְקִבֵּל֙ (וְ) ve. “and”

because Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, adversary of all the Jews, had devised concerning the Jews to destroy them, and had caused to fall Pur -- that `is' the lot -- to crush them and to destroy them;

וְהִפִּ֥יל (וְ) ve. “and”

and in her coming in before the king, he said with the letter, `Let his evil device that he devised against the Jews turn back upon his own head,' and they have hanged him and his sons on the tree,

וְתָל֥וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

the Jews have established and received upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all those joined unto them, and it doth not pass away, to be keeping these two days according to their writing, and according to their season, in every year and year;

וְקִבְּל֣וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

And Esther the queen, daughter of Abihail, writeth, and Mordecai the Jew, with all might, to establish this second letter of Purim,

וַ֠תִּכְתֹּב (וַ֠) va. “and”

and he sendeth letters unto all the Jews, unto the seven and twenty and a hundred provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus -- words of peace and truth --

וַיִּשְׁלַ֨ח (וַ) va “and”