SIL Translator’s Notes on Esther 5:12

5:12a

Notice that in the English versions, this verse is in direct speech, whereas 5:11 was indirect. You need to decide if it is possible in your language to keep these verses in this way or whether it would be better to treat both verses in the same way.

What is more: This translates a Hebrew word which means that what follows is even greater than what was before. Here is another way to translate this phrase:

And that’s not all (New International Version)

banquet: See note on 1:9.

5:12b

I am invited back tomorrow along with the king: The emphasis is on the word “me” here. Haman was saying that he was such an important man in the kingdom that he was the only other person besides the king who was invited to the queen’s feast.

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