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uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-time-sequential

וַ⁠יְבֻקַּ֤שׁ הַ⁠דָּבָר֙ וַ⁠יִּמָּצֵ֔א וַ⁠יִּתָּל֥וּ שְׁנֵי⁠הֶ֖ם עַל־עֵ֑ץ

(Some words not found in UHB: and,it_was_sought the,matter and,it_was_found and,they_were_hanged both_of=them on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in tree/message and,it_was_written in,the_book_of events_of the=days to=(the)_face_of/in_front_of/before the,king )

This verse tells what happened next after Esther gave the information to the king. You can use a word such as “then” to indicate this.

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

וַ⁠יְבֻקַּ֤שׁ הַ⁠דָּבָר֙ וַ⁠יִּמָּצֵ֔א

(Some words not found in UHB: and,it_was_sought the,matter and,it_was_found and,they_were_hanged both_of=them on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in tree/message and,it_was_written in,the_book_of events_of the=days to=(the)_face_of/in_front_of/before the,king )

You can say this with an active form, and you can say who did the action. For example, you can say, “Then the king’s servants investigated Mordecai’s report and found out that it was true.”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

וַ⁠יִּתָּל֥וּ שְׁנֵי⁠הֶ֖ם עַל־עֵ֑ץ

(Some words not found in UHB: and,it_was_sought the,matter and,it_was_found and,they_were_hanged both_of=them on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in tree/message and,it_was_written in,the_book_of events_of the=days to=(the)_face_of/in_front_of/before the,king )

You can say this with an active form, and you can say who did the action. Alternate translation: [the king ordered his servants to impale those two men on wooden poles] or [the king ordered his servants to hang those two men on a gallows]

Note 4 topic: translate-unknown

עֵ֑ץ

tree/message

This seems to refer specifically to a pole or wooden structure that would be used to suspend a person above the ground and that could be used as a means of killing him or to display his body after he was dead. This might mean: (1) by hanging him from it with a rope tied around his neck, or (2) by impaling him on it, that is, by sticking a sharp point on one end of a pole through his body. Alternate translation: [wooden structure] or [wooden pole] or [gallows]

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

וַ⁠יִּכָּתֵ֗ב

(Some words not found in UHB: and,it_was_sought the,matter and,it_was_found and,they_were_hanged both_of=them on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in tree/message and,it_was_written in,the_book_of events_of the=days to=(the)_face_of/in_front_of/before the,king )

You can say this with an active form, and you can say who did the action. You can say, for example, “The king’s scribes recorded an account of this.”

Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

בְּ⁠סֵ֛פֶר דִּבְרֵ֥י הַ⁠יָּמִ֖ים

(Some words not found in UHB: and,it_was_sought the,matter and,it_was_found and,they_were_hanged both_of=them on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in tree/message and,it_was_written in,the_book_of events_of the=days to=(the)_face_of/in_front_of/before the,king )

This is an idiom that describes a record or chronicle of the events in a king’s reign. Alternate translation: [in the record book]

Note 7 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

לִ⁠פְנֵ֥י הַ⁠מֶּֽלֶךְ

to=(the)_face_of/in_front_of/before (Some words not found in UHB: and,it_was_sought the,matter and,it_was_found and,they_were_hanged both_of=them on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in tree/message and,it_was_written in,the_book_of events_of the=days to=(the)_face_of/in_front_of/before the,king )

Here, face refers to the presence of a person. The phrase means that the scribes wrote this account while King Ahasuerus was personally present. You could say that they did this in the king’s presence. Alternate translation: [the king watched a scribe write this down]