This book is not inspired by God and is not part of the Christian canon or the Jewish Tanakh. It is shown only for historical and study purposes. View full explanation Esther (Greek) 6:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 20211 This is a copy of the letter: “The Great King, Artaxerxes, writes the following to the governors of the hundred twenty-seven provinces from India to Ethiopia and to the officials under them: See the chapterMore versionsCommon English Bible1 That same night, the king simply couldn’t sleep. He told his secretary to bring the official records and to read them to him. See the chapterDouay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version1 That night the king passed without sleep, and he commanded the histories and chronicles of former times to be brought him. And when they were reading them before him, See the chapterGood News Translation (US Version)1 That night the Lord kept the king from sleeping, so the king ordered his private secretary to bring the official records of the empire and read them to him. See the chapterWorld English Bible - American English Edition - without Strong's Numbers1 The Lord removed sleep from the king that night; so he told his servant to bring in the books, the registers of daily events, to read to him. See the chapterContemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition1 That night, the Lord did not let King Artaxerxes get any sleep. So he called in his secretary and said, “Bring the daily reports of the decisions I have made, and read them to me.” See the chapter |