Kniha Ester

1 (CPDV) The king passed that night without sleep, and so he ordered the histories and chronicles of former times to be brought to him. And when they were reading them before him,
1 (KAT) Nato kráľ Asuer uvalil daň na celú krajinu a na všetky morské ostrovy.
1 (ROH) Potom uložil kráľ Ahasver daň na zem a na ostrovy mora.

2 (CPDV) they came to that place where it had been written, how Mordecai had reported the treachery of Bigthan and Teresh the eunuchs, who desired to cut the throat of king Artaxerxes.
2 (KAT) V knihách Médov a Peržanov je zapísaná moc a vláda, hodnosť a vznešenosť, akými (poctami) povýšil Mardocheja
2 (ROH) A všetky činy jeho moci a jeho hrdinská sila i zpráva o veľkosti Mardocheovej, na jakú ho zveličil kráľ, či nie je to napísané v knihe letopisov kráľov médskych a perzských?

3 (CPDV) When the king had heard this, he said, “What honor and reward has Mordecai been given for this fidelity?” His servants and ministers said to him, “He has received no compensation at all.”
3 (KAT) a ako sa Mardochej, človek židovského pôvodu, stal druhým po kráľovi Asuerovi. U Židov bol velebený a stal sa obľúbeným u ľudu svojich bratov, lebo vyhľadával, čo bolo dobré pre národ, a hovoril o tom, čo slúžilo blahu jeho rodu. (Čo je v hebrejskej osnove, to som s plnou vernosťou preložil. Avšak to, čo odteraz nasleduje, našiel som napísané vo všeobecne známom vydaní, ako je to podané rečou a písmenami Grékov: Túto kapitolu uvádzali kedysi na konci Knihy, čo som podľa svojho zvyku na počiatku obelosom, to jest ražňom, poznačil. - Poznámka sv. Hieronyma.)
3 (ROH) Lebo Žid Mardocheus bol druhý po kráľovi Ahasverovi a veľký u Židov a vzácny celému množstvu svojich bratov, hľadajúci dobré svojho ľudu a hovoril to, čo donášalo pokoj všetkému jeho semenu.

4 (CPDV) And immediately the king said, “Who is in the atrium?” For, you see, Haman was entering the inner atrium of the king’s house to suggest to the king that he should order Mordecai to be hanged on the gallows, which had been prepared for him.
4 (KAT) Mardochej hovoril: „Tie veci sa stali Božím (riadením).
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5 (CPDV) The servants answered, “Haman is standing in the atrium.” And the king said, “Let him enter.”
5 (KAT) Pamätám sa na sen, ktorý som mal. (Boh) mi dal poznať tie veci a ani najmenšia vec z toho nezostala nesplnená.
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6 (CPDV) And when he had entered, he said to him, “What ought to be done for the man whom the king wishes to honor?” But Haman, thinking in his heart and supposing that the king would honor no one else but himself,
6 (KAT) Malý prameň, ktorý sa rozrástol na rieku a zmenil sa na svetlo (veľké ako) slnko; a (rieka) sa veľmi rozvodnila: znamenala Ester, ktorú si kráľ vzal za manželku a sám si prial, aby bola kráľovnou.
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7 (CPDV) answered, “The man whom the king wishes to honor,
7 (KAT) Tí dvaja draci, to som ja a Aman.
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8 (CPDV) ought to be clothed with the king’s apparel, and be set upon the horse that the king rides, and receive the royal crown upon his head.
8 (KAT) Národy, ktoré sa zhromaždili, to sú tí, čo pracovali na tom, aby vytreli meno Židov.
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9 (CPDV) And let the first of the king’s rulers and sovereigns hold his horse, and, as they advance through the street of the city, proclaim before him and say, ‘Thus shall he be honored, whom the king decides to honor.’ ”
9 (KAT) Môj národ, čiže Izrael, volal (o pomoc) k Pánovi a Pán zachránil svoj ľud a vyslobodil nás zo všetkého nebezpečenstva a robil veľké divy a zázraky medzi národmi,
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10 (CPDV) And the king said to him, “Hurry, take the robe and the horse, and do as you have said to Mordecai the Jew, who sits in front of the gate of the palace. Be careful not to omit any of those things which you have 290 mentioned.”
10 (KAT) a tak ustanovil, aby boli dva lósy: jeden za Boží národ a druhý pre všetky národy.
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11 (CPDV) And so Haman took the robe and the horse, and arraying Mordecai in the street of the city, and setting him on the horse, he went before him and cried out, “He is worthy of this honor, whom the king has decided to honor.”
11 (KAT) A tieto dva lósy padli na deň, ktorý Boh už od dávneho času určil pre všetky národy.
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12 (CPDV) And Mordecai returned to the palace door. And Haman hurried to go to his house, mourning and hiding his head.
12 (KAT) Pán si spomenul na svoj ľud a bolo mu ľúto svojho dedičstva.
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13 (CPDV) And he explained to Zeresh his wife and to his friends all that had happened to him. And the wise men, whom he held in counsel, and his wife, answered him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is from the offspring of the Jews, you will not be able to withstand him, but you will fall in his sight.”
13 (KAT) Nech sa tieto dni slávia v mesiaci adar, a to na štrnásty a pätnásty deň tohto mesiaca so všetkou horlivosťou a radosťou celého národa v jedinom zbore zhromaždenom pre všetky budúce pokolenia izraelského ľudu.“
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14 (CPDV) As they were still speaking, the king’s eunuchs arrived and compelled him to go quickly to the feast, which the queen had prepared.
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