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Then took Haman the clothing and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and caused him to ride through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.

לְפָנָ֔יו (לְ) le. “<to>”לָאִ֔ישׁ (לָ) la. “for the”

Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, be of the seed of the Jews, you shall not prevail against him, but shall surely fall before him.

לְזֶ֤רֶשׁ (לְ) le. “to”וּלְכָל־ (לְ) le. “to”ל֨וֹ (ל֨) l “to”לִנְפֹּ֤ל (לִ) li “to”לְפָנָיו֙ (לְ) le. “<to>”ל֔וֹ (ל֔) l “to”לְפָנָֽיו׃ (לְ) le. “<to>”

While they were yet talking with him, came the king's chamberlains, and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

לְהָבִ֣יא (לְ) le. “to”

So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.

לִשְׁתּ֖וֹת (לִ) li “to”

The king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is your petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted you: and what is your request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.

לְאֶסְתֵּ֜ר (לְ) le. “to”לָ֑ךְ (לָ֑) La “to”

Then Esther the queen answered, If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:

לִ֤י (לִ֤) l “to”

for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondservants and bondmaids, I had held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king's damage.

לְהַשְׁמִ֖יד (לְ) le. “to”לַהֲר֣וֹג (לַ) la. “to”וּלְאַבֵּ֑ד (לְ) le. “to”לַעֲבָדִ֨ים (לַ) la. “to”וְלִשְׁפָח֤וֹת (לִ) li “to”

Then spoke the king Ahasuerus and said to Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that dared presume in his heart to do so?

לְאֶסְתֵּ֣ר (לְ) le. “to”לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת (לַ) la. “to”

Esther said, An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

מִלִּפְנֵ֥י (לִּ) li “to”

The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine [ergänzt: and went] into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

לְבַקֵּ֤שׁ (לְ) le. “to”

Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen on the couch whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he even force the queen before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.

לִכְבּ֧וֹשׁ (לִ) li “to”

Then said Harbonah, one of the chamberlains who were before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, stands in the house of Haman. The king said, Hang him thereon.

לִפְנֵ֣י (לִ) li “<to>”לְֽמָרְדֳּכַ֞י (לְֽ) le. “for”

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

לְמָרְדֳּכָ֑י (לְ) le. “for”

On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.

לְאֶסְתֵּ֣ר (לְ) le. “to”לִפְנֵ֣י (לִ) li “<to>”לָֽהּ׃ (לָֽ) La “to”

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

לְמָרְדֳּכָ֑י (לְ) le. “to”

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

לִפְנֵ֣י (לִ) li “<to>”לִפְנֵ֣י (לִ) li “<to>”ל֗וֹ (ל֗) l “to”לְהַֽעֲבִיר֙ (לְ) le. “to”

Then the king held out to Esther the golden scepter. So Esther arose, and stood before the king.

לְאֶסְתֵּ֔ר (לְ) le. “to”לִפְנֵ֥י (לִ) li “<to>”

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

לְפָנָ֗יו (לְ) le. “<to>”לִפְנֵ֣י (לִ) li “<to>”לְהָשִׁ֣יב (לְ) le. “to”לְאַבֵּד֙ (לְ) le. “to”

Then the king Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, See, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged on the gallows, because he laid his hand on the Jews.

לְאֶסְתֵּ֣ר (לְ) le. “to”וּֽלְמָרְדֳּכַ֖י (לְ) le. “to”לְאֶסְתֵּ֗ר (לְ) le. “to”

Write you also to the Jews, as it pleases you, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring; for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's ring, may no man reverse.

לְהָשִֽׁיב׃ (לְ) le. “to”

in which the king granted the Jews who were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, [ergänzt: their] little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,

לַיְּהוּדִ֣ים׀ (לַ) la “to the”לְהִקָּהֵל֮ (לְ) le. “to”וְלַעֲמֹ֣ד (לַ) la. “to”לְהַשְׁמִיד֩ (לְ) le. “to”וְלַהֲרֹ֨ג (לַ) la. “to”וּלְאַבֵּ֜ד (לְ) le. “to”לָבֽוֹז׃ (לָ) la. “to”

on one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, [ergänzt: namely], on the thirteenth [ergänzt: day] of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.

לְחֹ֥דֶשׁ (לְ) le. “of”

A copy of the writing, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, and that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.

לְהִנָּ֤תֵֽן (לְ) le. “[was] to”לְכָל־ (לְ) le. “to”וְלִהְי֨וֹת (לִ) li “to”לַיּ֣וֹם (לַ) la “for the”לְהִנָּקֵ֖ם (לְ) le. “to”

Mordecai went forth from the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a robe of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan shouted and was glad.

מִלִּפְנֵ֣י (לִּ) li “to”

The Jews had light and gladness, and joy and honor.

לַיְּהוּדִ֕ים (לַ) la “to the”