Esther 3:14 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁴ A copy of the writing, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published unto all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, that they should be ready against that day.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ A copy of the writing was to be published and given out as a decree in every province to all the peoples to be ready for that day.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ A copy of the writing, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published unto all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ A copy of the order was to become law in each province and to be posted in public for all peoples to read. The people were to be ready for this day to do as the order commanded.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ (but first and foremost were Carshena, and Shethar, and Admatha, and Tarshish, and Meres, and Marsena, and Memucan, seven rulers of the Persians as well as the Medes, who saw the face of the king and who were accustomed to sitting down first after him,)

English Standard Version 2016

¹⁴ A copy of the document was to be issued as a decree in every province by proclamation to all the peoples to be ready for that day.

Esther 3:14 Cross References

Esther 4:8

Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Shushan to destroy them, to shew it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her; and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him, for her people.