Esther 4:2
World English Bible (WEB)
He came even before the king’s gate, for no one is allowed inside the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
In context
1 Now when Mordecai found out all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the middle of the city, and wailed loudly and bitterly.
2 He came even before the king’s gate, for no one is allowed inside the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
3 In every province, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
4 Esther’s maidens and her eunuchs came and told her this, and the queen was exceedingly grieved. She sent clothing to Mordecai, to replace his sackcloth, but he didn’t receive it.
Esther 4:2 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- He came even before the king’s gate, for no one is allowed inside the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
- KJV King James Version
- And came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- But he went only as far as the king’s gate, because the law prohibited anyone wearing sackcloth from entering that gate.
- ASV American Standard Version
- and he came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter within the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- 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.
- DBY Darby Translation
- and came even before the king's gate; for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
- WBS Webster Bible
- And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.