Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my request is:
WEB
Esther replied, “This is my petition and my request:
YLT
And Esther answereth and saith, `My petition and my request is :
DBT
And Esther answered and said, My petition and my request is,
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