Esteri
6 Usiku ihwohwo mambo akatadza kurara.* Saka akati vauye nebhuku renhoroondo yepanguva yacho+ uye rakaverengerwa mambo. 2 Vakawana makanyorwa zvakanga zvafumurwa naModhekai pamusoro paBhigtana naTereshi, vakuru vaviri vemumuzinda wamambo, vachengeti vemasuo, avo vakanga varonga kuuraya* Mambo Ahashivheroshi.+ 3 Mambo akabvunza kuti: “Modhekai akapiwa rukudzo neruremekedzo here pamusoro peizvi?” Vashandi vamambo vepedyo vakabva vati: “Hapana chaakaitirwa.”
4 Gare gare mambo akati: “Ndiani ari pachivanze?” Zvino Hamani akanga auya pachivanze chekunze+ cheimba yamambo* kuti ataure namambo nezvekuti Modhekai aturikwe padanda raakanga amugadzirira.+ 5 Vashandi vamambo vakati kwaari: “NdiHamani+ akamira pachivanze.” Saka mambo akati: “Itai kuti apinde.”
6 Hamani paakapinda, mambo akati kwaari: “Chii chingaitwa namambo kumunhu waanenge afarira kukudza?” Hamani akati mumwoyo make: “Mambo angada kukudza ani kupfuura ini?”+ 7 Saka Hamani akati kuna mambo: “Kana ari munhu uyo mambo afarira kukudza, 8 ngavauye nezvipfeko zveumambo+ zvinopfekwa namambo nebhiza ramambo raanotasva, riine chishongo cheumambo mumusoro waro. 9 Zvipfeko zvacho nebhiza racho ngazviiswe mumaoko emumwe wemachinda amambo anokudzwa, uye ngavapfekedze munhu anenge achikudzwa namambo, voita kuti atasve bhiza racho munzvimbo yeguta inoungana vanhu. Vanofanira kushevedzera pamberi pake vachiti: ‘Izvi ndizvo zvinoitirwa munhu anenge achikudzwa namambo!’”+ 10 Mambo akabva ati kuna Hamani: “Kurumidza! Tora zvipfeko uye bhiza, uitire Modhekai muJudha agere pagedhi ramambo zvauchangobva kutaura. Hapana chaunofanira kusiya pane zvawataura.”
11 Saka Hamani akatora zvipfeko zvacho nebhiza racho, akapfekedza Modhekai,+ akaita kuti aritasve munzvimbo yeguta yaiungana vanhu, akashevedzera ari pamberi pake achiti: “Izvi ndizvo zvinoitirwa munhu anenge achikudzwa namambo!” 12 Pashure pacho Modhekai akadzokera kugedhi ramambo, asi Hamani akakurumidza kuenda kumba kwake, achichema akafukidza musoro. 13 Hamani paakaudza shamwari dzake dzese nemudzimai wake Zereshi+ zvese zvakanga zvaitika kwaari, varume vake vakachenjera nemudzimai wake Zereshi vakati kwaari: “Kana Modhekai wawatanga kuwa pamberi pake ari mumwe wevaJudha,* hauzomukundi; chokwadi uchawa pamberi pake.”
14 Vachiri kutaura naye, vakuru vemumuzinda vakasvika vakakurumidza kuenda naHamani kumabiko akanga agadzirwa naEsteri.+