Esther 6

ballaylah hahu nadedah shenat hammelekh vayyomer lehavi et-sefer hazzikhronot divre hayyamim vayyihyu niqra'im lifne hammelekh

That night, sleep deserted the king, and he ordered the book of records, the annals, to be brought; and it was read to the king.

vayyimmatse khatuv asher higgid mordokhay al-bigtana vateresh shene sarise hammelekh mishomere hassaf asher biqshu lishloakh yad bammelekh akhashverosh

There it was found written that Mordecai had denounced Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs who guarded the threshold, who had plotted to do away with King Ahasuerus.

vayyomer hammelekh mah-nna'asah yeqar ugedullah lemordokhay al-zeh vayyomeru na'are hammelekh mesharetayw lo-na'asah immo davar

“What honor or advancement has been conferred on Mordecai for this?” the king inquired. “Nothing at all has been done for him,” replied the king’s servants who were in attendance on him.

vayyomer hammelekh mi vekhatser vehaman ba lakhatsar bet-hammelekh hakhitsonah lemor lammelekh litlot et-mordokhay al-ha'ets asher-hekhin lo

“Who is in the court?” the king asked. For Haman had just entered the outer court of the royal palace, to speak to the king about having Mordecai impaled on the stake he had prepared for him.

vayyomeru na'are hammelekh elayw hinneh haman omed bekhatser vayyomer hammelekh yavo

“It is Haman standing in the court,” the king’s servants answered him. “Let him enter,” said the king.

vayyavo haman vayyomer lo hammelekh mah-lla'asot ba'ish asher hammelekh khafets biqaro vayyomer haman belibbo lemi yakhpots hammelekh la'asot yeqar yoter mimmenni

Haman entered, and the king asked him, “What should be done for a man whom the king desires to honor?” Haman said to himself, “Whom would the king desire to honor more than me?”

vayyomer haman el-hammelekh ish asher hammelekh khafets biqaro

So Haman said to the king, “For the man whom the king desires to honor,

yavi'u levush malkhut asher lavash-bo hammelekh vesus asher rakhav alayw hammelekh va'asher nittan keter malkhut berosho

let royal garb that the king has worn be brought, and a horse on which the king has ridden and on whose head a royal diadem has been set;

venaton hallevush vehassus al-yad-ish missare hammelekh happartemim vehilbishu et-ha'ish asher hammelekh khafets biqaro vehirkivuhu al-hassus birkhov ha'ir veqare'u lefanayw kakhah ye'aseh la'ish asher hammelekh khafets biqaro

and let the attire and the horse be put in the charge of one of the king’s noble courtiers. And let the man whom the king desires to honor be attired and paraded on the horse through the city square, while they proclaim before him: This is what is done for the man whom the king desires to honor!”

vayyomer hammelekh lehaman maher qakh et-hallevush ve'et-hassus ka'asher dibbarta va'aseh-khen lemordokhay hayyehudi hayyoshev besha'ar hammelekh al-tappel davar mikkol asher dibbarta

“Quick, then!” said the king to Haman. “Get the garb and the horse, as you have said, and do this to Mordecai the Jew, who sits in the king’s gate. Omit nothing of all you have proposed.”

vayyiqqakh haman et-hallevush ve'et-hassus vayyalbesh et-mordokhay vayyarkivehu birkhov ha'ir vayyiqra lefanayw kakhah ye'aseh la'ish asher hammelekh khafets biqaro

So Haman took the garb and the horse and arrayed Mordecai and paraded him through the city square; and he proclaimed before him: This is what is done for the man whom the king desires to honor!

vayyashov mordokhay el-sha'ar hammelekh vehaman nidkhaf el-beto avel vakhafuy rosh

Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate, while Haman hurried home, his head covered in mourning.

vayesapper haman lezeresh ishto ulekhol-ohavayw et kol-asher qarahu vayyomeru lo khakhamayw vezeresh ishto im mizzera hayyehudim mordokhay asher hakhillota linpol lefanayw lo-tukhal lo ki-nafol tippol lefanayw

There Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had befallen him. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish stock, you will not overcome him; you will fall before him to your ruin.”

odam medabberim immo vesarise hammelekh higgi'u vayyavhilu lehavi et-haman el-hammishteh asher-asetah ester

While they were still speaking with him, the king’s eunuchs arrived and hurriedly brought Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.