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以斯帖记
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这事以后,亚哈随鲁王的忿怒止息,就想念瓦实提和她所行的,并怎样降旨办她。

Later when the anger of King Xerxes had subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what he had decreed about her.
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于是王的侍臣对王说,不如为王寻找美貌的处女。

Then the king's personal attendants proposed, "Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king.
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王可以派官在国中的各省,招聚美貌的处女到书珊城(或作宫)的女院,交给掌管女子的太监希该,给她们当用的香品。

Let the king appoint commissioners in every province of his realm to bring all these beautiful girls into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king's eunuch, who is in charge of the women; and let beauty treatments be given to them.
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王所喜爱的女子可以立为王后,代替瓦实提。王以这事为美,就如此行。

Then let the girl who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti." This advice appealed to the king, and he followed it.
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书珊城有一个犹大人,名叫末底改,是便雅悯人基士的曾孙,示每的孙子,睚珥的儿子。

Now there was in the citadel of Susa a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin, named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish,
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从前巴比伦王尼布甲尼撒,将犹大王耶哥尼雅(又名约雅斤)和百姓从耶路撒冷掳去,末底改也在其内。

who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those taken captive with Jehoiachin king of Judah.
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末底改抚养他叔叔的女儿哈大沙(后名以斯帖),因为她没有父母。这女子又容貌俊美,她父母死了,末底改就收她为自己的女儿。

Mordecai had a cousin named Hadassah, whom he had brought up because she had neither father nor mother. This girl, who was also known as Esther, was lovely in form and features, and Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter when her father and mother died.
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王的谕旨传出,就招聚许多女子到书珊城,交给掌管女子的希该。以斯帖也送入王宫,交付希该。

When the king's order and edict had been proclaimed, many girls were brought to the citadel of Susa and put under the care of Hegai. Esther also was taken to the king's palace and entrusted to Hegai, who had charge of the harem.
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希该喜悦以斯帖,就恩待她。急忙给她需用的香品和她所当得的分,又派所当得的七个宫女服事她,使她和她的宫女搬入女院上好的房屋。

The girl pleased him and won his favor. Immediately he provided her with her beauty treatments and special food. He assigned to her seven maids selected from the king's palace and moved her and her maids into the best place in the harem.
10
以斯帖未曾将籍贯宗族告诉人,因为末底改嘱咐她不可叫人知道。

Esther had not revealed her nationality and family background, because Mordecai had forbidden her to do so.
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末底改天天在女院前边行走,要知道以斯帖平安不平安,并后事如何。

Every day he walked back and forth near the courtyard of the harem to find out how Esther was and what was happening to her.
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众女子照例先洁净身体十二个月。六个月用没药油,六个月用香料和洁身之物。满了日期,然后挨次进去见亚哈随鲁王。

Before a girl's turn came to go in to King Xerxes, she had to complete twelve months of beauty treatments prescribed for the women, six months with oil of myrrh and six with perfumes and cosmetics.
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女子进去见王是这样。从女院到王宫的时候,凡她所要的都必给她。

And this is how she would go to the king: Anything she wanted was given her to take with her from the harem to the king's palace.
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晚上进去,次日回到女子第二院,交给掌管妃嫔的太监沙甲。除非王喜爱她,再提名召她,就不再进去见王。

In the evening she would go there and in the morning return to another part of the harem to the care of Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch who was in charge of the concubines. She would not return to the king unless he was pleased with her and summoned her by name.
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末底改叔叔亚比孩的女儿,就是末底改收为自己女儿的以斯帖,按次序当进去见王的时候,除了掌管女子的太监希该所派定给她的,她别无所求。凡看见以斯帖的都喜悦她。

When the turn came for Esther (the girl Mordecai had adopted, the daughter of his uncle Abihail) to go to the king, she asked for nothing other than what Hegai, the king's eunuch who was in charge of the harem, suggested. And Esther won the favor of everyone who saw her.
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亚哈随鲁王第七年十月,就是提别月,以斯帖被引入宫见王。

She was taken to King Xerxes in the royal residence in the tenth month, the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
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王爱以斯帖过于爱众女,她在王眼前蒙宠爱比众处女更甚。王就把王后的冠冕戴在她头上,立她为王后,代替瓦实提。

Now the king was attracted to Esther more than to any of the other women, and she won his favor and approval more than any of the other virgins. So he set a royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.
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王因以斯帖的缘故给众首领和臣仆设摆大筵席,又豁免各省的租税,并照王的厚意大颁赏赐。

And the king gave a great banquet, Esther's banquet, for all his nobles and officials. He proclaimed a holiday throughout the provinces and distributed gifts with royal liberality.
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第二次招聚处女的时候,末底改坐在朝门。

When the virgins were assembled a second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king's gate.
20
以斯帖照着末底改所嘱咐的,还没有将籍贯宗族告诉人。因为以斯帖遵末底改的命,如抚养她的时候一样。

But Esther had kept secret her family background and nationality just as Mordecai had told her to do, for she continued to follow Mordecai's instructions as she had done when he was bringing her up.
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当那时候,末底改坐在朝门,王的太监中有两个守门的,辟探和提列,恼恨亚哈随鲁王,想要下手害他。

During the time Mordecai was sitting at the king's gate, Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's officers who guarded the doorway, became angry and conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.
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末底改知道了,就告诉王后以斯帖。以斯帖奉末底改的名,报告于王。

But Mordecai found out about the plot and told Queen Esther, who in turn reported it to the king, giving credit to Mordecai.
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究察这事,果然是实,就把二人挂在木头上,将这事在王面前写于历史上。

And when the report was investigated and found to be true, the two officials were hanged on a gallows. All this was recorded in the book of the annals in the presence of the king.

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