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) 8:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 202111 All nations of the realm know that if any man or woman goes to the king inside the inner court without being called, there is no escape for that person. Only the one to whom the king stretches out the golden scepter is safe—and it is now thirty days since I myself was called to go to the king.” See the chapterMore versionsCommon English Bible11 Mordecai ordered the Jews to live according to their own laws and to defend themselves. He allowed them to do as they wished to their attackers and opponents See the chapterDouay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version11 And the king gave orders to them, to speak to the Jews in every city, and to command them to gather themselves together, and to stand for their lives, and to kill and destroy all their enemies with their wives and children and all their houses, and to take their spoil. See the chapterGood News Translation (US Version)11 These letters explained that the king would allow the Jews in every city of the empire to live by their own laws and organize for self-defense. They were permitted to treat their opponents and enemies in any way they liked. See the chapterWorld English Bible - American English Edition - without Strong's Numbers11 In them, he charged them to use their own laws in every city, to help each other, and to treat their adversaries and those who attacked them as they pleased, See the chapterContemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition11-12 In the letters, King Artaxerxes commanded the Jews of every city in his kingdom to obey their own laws. And on the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month, they were to defend themselves and to do anything they wanted to their enemies. See the chapter |