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Chapter 4
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Глvа, д~”
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Wherever this decree was received, the people kept up a revelry of joy and shouting; as if their long-pent-up, hardened hatred, were now to shew itself openly.
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И$ внегда` прїиде повеленїе сїе въ кђю любо странђ`. тогDа ја^зы'цы нароDне составля'хђ пирова'нїя съ восклица'нїем# и^ ра'достїю. ꙁане` древле ё^готова'шася мы'слїю на ѓ^жесточенїе си'хъ. нн~њ же съ де'рзостїю и^ ја^вленымъ эTриновенїемъ начина'хђ”
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The Jews suffered great throes of sorrow, and wept much; while their hearts, all things around being lamentable, were set on fire as they bewailed the sudden destruction which was decreed against them.
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І$ё^деѓM же бњше несътерпи'мъ плаq, и^ ѕњ'ло рыда'телен# съ слеза'ми во'пля и^ стена'нїемъ. ја^ко ѓ^жести'тися срDцемъ и^хъ эT всю'дђ, вс^е смятенїа ради и^ нечаа'ннаго и^ внезапаго ѓ^сђжDенїя црsка, въ поги'бель”
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What home, or city, or place at all inhabited, or what streets were there, which their condition did not fill with wailing and lamentation?
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И$ не бы'сᲄь кои за'конъ, и^л^и граD, и^л^и повсю'дђ вселе'нное мњсто, и^же ст~ыхъ плачA и^ рыда'нїя и^хᲆ не и^сполни'ся”
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They were sent out unanimously by the generals in the several cities, with such stern and pitiless feeling, that the exceptional nature of the infliction moved even some of their enemies. These, influenced by sentiments of common humanity, and reflecting upon the uncertain issue of life, shed tears at this their miserable expulsion.
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Си'це б^о го'ркимъ прилежа'нїемъ дш~и эT страти'говъ и^же по гра'дехъ в#кђпњ посила'хђся кᲆ цр~ю. ја%коже неи^ꙁреченныхъ ради мђче'нїи и^ нњ'кто и^мъ эT вра'гъ и^хъ вꙁима'ющи преD ѓ^чи ѓ^б#щђю млsть, помышля'ющи без#вњстныи и^хъ жи'тїя конецъ. и^ даже когда` і^ и^мъ не слђчи'тся сїе. слезаM трескор#бным# вда'ша себе`.
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A multitude of aged hoary-haired men, were driven along with halting bending feet, urged onward by the impulse of a violent, shameless force to quick speed.
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ведя'ше бо ся ста'рець мно'жество седи'нами ё^бњлени, и^ эT ста'рости слячены. ведђщїи же с нђждею бесра'мне на' ня гл~ахђ въско'рњ шествова'ти. ѓ^ниy претыка'ющеся бњжати понђжда'хђся”
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Girls who had entered the bridal chamber quite lately, to enjoy the partnership of marriage, exchanged pleasure for misery; and with dust scattered upon their myrrh-anointed heads, were hurried along unveiled, and, in the midst of outlandish insults, set up with one accord a lamentable cry in lieu of the marriage hymn.
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ᲄа'коже и^ посяг#шїи секра'ты къ жи'тїю съѓ^б#щенїа ю%ноты, въ веселїя мњсто и^ ё^тњшенїя прїя'ша пла'чь. и^ пра'хомъ ми'роё^ха'н#ныя вла'сы посы'паша. и^ эTкровены ведо'ми бы'ша, рыда'нїе въ мњсто пњнїи весе'лыхъ вᲆкђпњ начина'хђ. ѓ^бъја%ти б^о бы'ша и^ноја%зы'чныхᲆ мђченїи`, и^ связа'ни нароDне и^ влекоми бы'ша съ нђж'дею даже къ кораблю всаже'нїя”
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Bound, and exposed to public gaze, they were hurried violently on board ship.
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Та'коже и^ сђпрђги си'хᲆ въ ю'ношескоM во'зрасте ё%жа вᲆ венец# мњсто на шїяX и^мњша, и въ мњсто веселїа и^ младе'нческа похвале'нїа въ про'чїи дн~и бра'ка рыданїемъ провождахђ. зане при нога'хъ ё^же` ви'дяще а%дъ лежа'щь”
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The husbands of these, in the prime of their youthful vigour, instead of crowns wore halters round their necks; instead of feasting and youthful jollity, spent the rest of their nuptial days in wailings, and saw only the grave at hand.
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Ведени же бы'ша звᲇри'нымъ ѓ%бразомъ въ ё%захъ желњ'зных#, и^ ё'жахъ. и^ е^ді'ни ё^бо ја^рмомъ корабльнымъ пригвождени бы'ша шїями. и^нїи же за но'ги нерастерза'ными пђтами ё^крњплени. е^ще же на'ипаче ча'стыми дщица'ми ѓ^бложени, да'же эTвсю'дђ помрачаTся и^ не ё^ви'дятъ свњта” Веденїе же въ всемъ плове'нїи ја%ко преда'телем# твори'ша.
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They were dragged along by unyielding chains, like wild beasts: of these, some had their necks thrust into the benches of the rowers; while the feet of others were enclosed in hard fetters.
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сим# же на гл~емњи ладїи веденомъ бы'вшимъ, и^ повеленїю съвершившђся по вожDелњнїю црsкђ. повелњ же и^хъ прDе гра'домъ в# конорысᲄателномъ мњсте поста'вити, просᲄо въ ѓ^б#меренїю. къ ѓ%бразђ всњмᲆ в#ходя'щимъ въ граD, та'коже і^ и^сходя'щимъ въ странђ`, да не зл^омђдръствђ'ютъ, и%мже ни'же во'емъ свои^мъ приѓ^бщи`, ни'же эTнђдь иX сподоби'ти кое^го покро'ва.
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The planks of the deck above them barred out the light, and shut out the day on every side, so that they might be treated like traitors during the whole voyage.
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ја%коже быs сїе слы'ша цр~ь ја^ко нњ'цїи эT ро'да и^хъ и^з гра'да та'и и^схожда'хђ частње, е^же ё^тњши'ти бра'тїю и^хъ въ нђжди, и^ стра'сти сђщихъ. раз#гнњвася ѕњло`, и^ повелњ съ прилежа'нїеM и^ сим# ѓ%нњхъ ѓ%бразом# сътвори'ти, да не ё'ймђтъ н^и е^ді'ноя же мђ'ки ѓ^нњхъ. ксемђ же написа'ти вся'ко колњно по и^мени, гл~ющи,
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They were conveyed accordingly in this vessel, and at the end of it arrived at Schedia. The king had ordered them to be cast into the vast hippodrome, which was built in front of the city. This place was well adapted by its situation to expose them to the gaze of all comers into the city, and of those who went from the city into the country. Thus they could hold no communication with his forces; nay, were deemed unworthy of any civilized accommodation.
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и^б^о не по преDвъꙁвᲇщен#нои краTко рабо'тњ дњл# тяжча'ишихъ съгрњши'вшимъ сътворю`” но нн~њ но'воповелен#ными совњты съврᲆшене е^ді'наго ча'са всXњ повелњва'ю погђби'ти”
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When this was done, the king, hearing that their brethren in the city often went out and lamented the melancholy distress of these victims,
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Бы'сть же ё^бо си'хъ пописа'нїе съ прилᲇжнымᲆ тща'нїемъ, и^ съ при'сно че'стнымъ сњда'нїемъ эT восто'къ сл~нца да'же до за'падъ. и^ не възмого'ша кон#ца сътвори'ти въ дн~ех# четы'редеся'тиX”*
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was full of rage, and commanded that they should be carefully subjected to the same (and not one whit milder) treatment.
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Цр~ь же вы'нђ ѕњлне ра'достїю и^сполня'шеся, и^ пи'ръ всњмᲆ и%доломᲆ состави. зане прельщенᲆ б^њ дале'че эT и%стиннаго ра'зђма, и^ скверныма ё^стнама, нњмая и^ не могђщая гл~ати и^мъ, и^л^и дви'гнђтися хваля'ше. вели'комђ же б~ђ неподобная скверны гл~а”
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The whole nation was now to be registered. Every individual was to be specified by name; not for that hard servitude of labour which we have a little before mentioned, but that he might expose them to the before-mentioned tortures; and finally, in the short space of a day, might extirpate them by his cruelties.
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По преDреченаго же вре'мени прехожденїю, приноша'хђ книQницы цр~еви и^ꙁвњщенїя е^же ника'коy мощи` пописа'нїе і^ё^де'и сътвори'ти. несъчи'сленаго ради иX мно'жества. занеже ё^бо сђть по и^ныхᲆ странахъ множа'ишїи, і^ и'нымъ же по домохъ състоа'щимся, и%ным же потвердыняхᲆ. ја%ко не возмощи эTнюD всњмᲆ и^же въ е^гљ=птњ страти'гом# сᲆтвори'ти сего”
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The registering of these men was carried on cruelly, zealously, assiduously, from the rising of the sun to its going down, and was not brought to an end in forty days.
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Цр~ь же запрети и^мᲆ жесточа'е, мня` дарова'нныX бы'ти иX, и^ сего ради ѓ^стави'вшихᲆ ё^бњщи иM вᲆ тверды'ня. н^о слђчися и^мᲆ извњсте е^го ѓ^ семᲆ ё^вњрити. гл~ющи со ѓ^бъја^вленїемᲆ. и^б^о хартїи ё^же` и^ писа'телнымᲆ тростемъ ѓ^скђдњвати и%миже сᲆвершити сїе”
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The king was filled with great and constant joy, and celebrated banquets before the temple idols. His erring heart, far from the truth, and his profane mouth, gave glory to idols, deaf and incapable of speaking or aiding, and uttered unworthy speech against the Greatest God.
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Сїеy б^њ дњ'ло промышленїя неѓ^сяза'емаго и^ помага'ющаго и^мъ съ нб~си б~а”
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At the end of the above-mentioned interval of time, the registrars brought word to the king that the multitude of the Jews was too great for registration,
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inasmuch as there were many still left in the land, of whom some were in inhabited houses, and others were scattered about in various places; so that all the commanders in Egypt were insufficient for the work.
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The king threatened them, and charged them with taking bribes, in order to contrive the escape of the Jews: but was clearly convinced of the truth of what had been said.
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They said, and proved, that paper and pens had failed them for the carrying out of their purpose.
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Now this was the active interference of the unconquerable Providence which assisted the Jews from heaven.
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