Esther (Greek) 8:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ Hachratheus went in and told her all these things.

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Common English Bible

⁹ So the royal scribes were summoned on the twenty-third day of the first month (that is, the month of Nisan). They wrote out Mordecai’s orders regarding the Jews for the officials and governors of the provinces from India to Cush, one hundred twenty-seven in all. They wrote in the alphabet of each province and in the language of each people.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ Then the king's scribes and secretaries were called for (now it was the time of the third month which is called Siban) the three and twentieth day of the month, and letters were written, as Mardochai had a mind, to the Jews, and to the governors, and to the deputies, and to the judges, who were rulers over the hundred and twenty-seven provinces, from India even to Ethiopia: to province and province, to people and people, according to their languages and characters: and to the Jews, according as they could read and hear.

Good News Translation (US Version)

⁹ On the twenty-third day of the first month, the month of Nisan, the king's secretaries were called and letters were written to the Jews and to the governors and administrators of all 127 provinces from India to Ethiopia. The letters were written to each province in its own language.

World English Bible - American English Edition - without Strong's Numbers

⁹ So the scribes were called in the first month, which is Nisan, on the twenty-third day of the same year; and orders were written to the Jews, whatever the king had commanded to the local governors and chiefs of the local governors, from India even to Ethiopia—one hundred twenty-seven local governors, according to the several provinces, in their own languages.

Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition

⁹ That same year, on the twenty-third day of Nisan, the first month, the king's secretaries were called in and were told to write letters containing the king's commands about the Jews. These letters were to be sent to the governors and officials of all 127 provinces from India to Ethiopia. Each letter was written in the language of the province where it was sent.

Esther (Greek) 8:9 Cross References