Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Then Esther spake unto Hathach, and gave him a message unto Mordecai, saying:
WEB
Then Esther spoke to Hathach and instructed him to tell Mordecai,
YLT
and Esther speaketh to Hatach, and chargeth him for Mordecai:
DBT
And Esther spoke to Hatach, and gave him commandment unto Mordecai:
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentEsther — A Jewish orphan becomes queen of Persia; Haman plots genocide; Mordecai and Esther intervene; deliverance comes by providence — and God's name never once appears in the book.
- Author
- Anonymous; some rabbinic tradition attributes to Mordecai
- Date
- Events c. 483–473 BC, during Xerxes I's reign (Heb. Ahasuerus); compilation 4th–5th century BC