Esther 1:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ So when the decree made by the king is proclaimed throughout all his kingdom, vast as it is, all women will give honor to their husbands, high and low alike.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ So when the king's decree is made and proclaimed throughout all his kingdom, extensive as it is, all wives will give honor to their husbands, high and low.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ And when the king’s decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give to their husbands honor, both to great and small.

Common English Bible

²⁰ When the order becomes public through the whole empire, vast as it is, all women will treat their husbands properly. The rule should touch everyone, whether from an important family or not.”

English Standard Version 2016

²⁰ So when the decree made by the king is proclaimed throughout all his kingdom, for it is vast, all women will give honor to their husbands, high and low alike.”

Esther 1:20 Cross References

Esther 1:21

This advice pleased the king and the officials, and the king did as Memucan proposed;

Esther 2:1

After these things, when the anger of King Ahasuerus had abated, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what had been decreed against her.

Ephesians 5:22

Wives, be subject to your husbands as to the Lord,

Ephesians 5:33

Each of you, however, should love his wife as himself, and a wife should respect her husband.

Deuteronomy 17:13

All the people will hear and be afraid and will not act presumptuously again.

Deuteronomy 21:21

Then all the men of the town shall stone him to death. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.

Colossians 3:18

Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.