The Bible is an eternal Book and a spiritual companion of mankind, it knows no boundaries in time and space and appeals to the hearts of people who speak hundreds of languages.

The translation of the Bible into Russian was carried out by the St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan and Kiev Theological Academies from 1856 to 1876.

The translation was based on the Russian text of the New Testament, the Psalter and the Pentateuch, which appeared as a result of the work of the Russian Bible Society in 1816-1826. The final redaction was carried out by the Holy Synod and personally by Metropolitan Philaret (Drozdov) of Moscow. The full text of the translation was published in 1876.

The Synodal translation is the main text of the Bible for all Christians in Russia.

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Bible

Books of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments

The Books of the Old Testament (Part 3)

The Book of Esther 

[In the second year of the reign of Artaxerxes the Great, on the first day of the month of Nisan, Mordecai, the son of Jairus, the Shemeites, the Kisses, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Judean who dwelt in the city of Shushan was a great man, who served in the king's palace, and he was one of the captives whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took captive from Jerusalem with Jeconiah king of Judah. thunder and earthquake and confusion on the earth; And behold, two great serpents came out, ready to fight with each other; and great was their howl, and because of their howling all the nations prepared for war, to smite the people of the righteous; and behold, a day of darkness and gloom, sorrow and distress, suffering and great confusion on earth; And all the righteous people were troubled, fearing their own troubles, and they prepared to perish, and cried out to the Lord. From their cry sprang up, as from a small spring, a great river with a great deal of water; and the light and the sun shone, and the humble were lifted up, and destroyed the vain. "Mordecai, awakening from this dream, which depicted what God wanted to accomplish, kept this dream in his heart and desired to understand it in all its parts, until nightfall. And Mordecai dwelt in the palace with Gabathah and Terah, the two royal eunuchs who guarded the palace, and heard their conversations, and inquired into their designs, and knew that they were preparing to lay hands on king Ahasuerus, and reported them to the king. and the king tortured these two eunuchs, and when they confessed, they were executed. The king wrote down the event as a keepsake, and Mordecai recorded the event. And the king commanded Mordecai to serve in the palace, and gave him gifts for it. And Haman the son of Amadath, the Bugeite, was then noble, and he sought to do evil to Mordecai and his people for the sake of the king's two eunuchs.]

Chapter 1

1 And it came to pass in the days of Artaxerxes, that this Artaxerxes reigned over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces, from India to Ethiopia,

2 And it came to pass, while king Ahasuerus sat on his throne which is in Shushan the throne city,