我们现今作了奴仆。至于你所赐给我们列祖享受其上的土产，并美物之地，看哪，我们在这地上作了奴仆。
Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it:
十二月，乃亚达月十三日，王的谕旨将要举行，就是犹大人的仇敌盼望辖制他们的日子，犹大人反倒辖制恨他们的人。
Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)
犹大人在亚哈随鲁王各省的城里聚集，下手击杀那要害他们的人。无人能敌挡他们，因为各族都惧怕他们。
The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon all people.
各省的首领，总督，省长，和办理王事的人，因惧怕末底改，就都帮助犹大人。
And all the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the deputies, and officers of the king, helped the Jews; because the fear of Mordecai fell upon them.
犹大人用刀击杀一切仇敌，任意杀灭恨他们的人。
Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.
又杀巴珊大他，达分，亚斯帕他，
And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,
这十人都是哈米大他的孙子，犹大人仇敌哈曼的儿子。犹大人却没有下手夺取财物。
The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand.
王便允准如此行。旨意传在书珊，人就把哈曼十个儿子的尸首挂起来了。
And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.
亚达月十三日，行了这事。十四日安息，以这日为设筵欢乐的日子。
On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
嘱咐他们每年守亚达月十四，十五两日。
To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,