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Esther 4:2

American Standard Version

and he came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter within the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.

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Esther 4:2 in other translations

He came even before the king’s gate, for no one is allowed inside the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.

Esther 4:2 · World English Bible

Esther 4:2 in context

  1. 1Now when Mordecai knew all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
  2. 2and he came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter within the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
  3. 3And in every province, whithersoever 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. 4And Esther’s maidens and her chamberlains came and told it her; and the queen was exceedingly grieved: and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take his sackcloth from off him; but he received it not.