And came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsand he came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter within the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
But he went only as far as the king’s gate, because the law prohibited anyone wearing sackcloth from entering that gate.
and he cometh in unto the front of the gate of the king, but none is to come in unto the gate of the king with a sackcloth-garment.
and came even before the king's gate; for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
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