Esther 4:15

The Darby Translation

And Esther bade to answer Mordecai:

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Esther sent this reply to Mordecai:

Hebrew Names Version
Then Ester bade them return answer to Mordekhai,

King James Version
Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer,

English Standard Version
Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai,

New Century Version
Then Esther sent this answer to Mordecai:

New English Translation
Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai:

Amplified Bible
Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai,

New American Standard Bible
Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai,

World English Bible
Then Esther bade them return answer to Mordecai,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Ester commanded to answere Mordecai,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Esther said for them to respond to Mordecai,

Berean Standard Bible
Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai:

Contemporary English Version
Esther sent a message to Mordecai, saying,

Complete Jewish Bible
Ester had them return this answer to Mordekhai:

Easy-to-Read Version
Then Esther sent this answer to Mordecai: "Mordecai, go and get all the Jews in Susa together, and fast for me. Don't eat or drink for three days and nights. I and my women servants will fast too. After we fast, I will go to the king. I know it is against the law to go to the king if he didn't call me, but I will do it anyway. If I die, I die."

George Lamsa Translation
Then Esther told him to return Mordecai this answer:

Good News Translation
Esther sent Mordecai this reply:

Lexham English Bible
Esther replied to Mordecai:

Literal Translation
And Esther said to take back to Mordecai,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Hester bad geue Mardocheus this answere:

American Standard Version
Then Esther bade them return answer unto Mordecai,

Bible in Basic English
Then Esther sent them back to Mordecai with this answer:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Esther bad them geue Mardocheus this aunswere:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then Esther bade them return answer unto Mordecai:

King James Version (1611)
Then Esther bade them returne Mordecai this answere:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Esther sent the man that came to her to Mardochaeus, saying,

English Revised Version
Then Esther bade them return answer unto Mordecai,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And eft Hester sente these wordis to Mardochee,

Update Bible Version
Then Esther bade them return answer to Mordecai,

Webster's Bible Translation
Then Esther bade [them] return Mordecai [this answer],

New King James Version
Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai:

New Living Translation
Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai:

New Life Bible
Then Esther told them to say to Mordecai,

New Revised Standard
Then Esther said in reply to Mordecai,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then Esther commanded, to answer Mordecai: -

Douay-Rheims Bible
And again Esther sent to Mardochai in these words:

Revised Standard Version
Then Esther told them to reply to Mor'decai,

Young's Literal Translation
And Esther speaketh to send back unto Mordecai:

THE MESSAGE
Esther sent back her answer to Mordecai: "Go and get all the Jews living in Susa together. Fast for me. Don't eat or drink for three days, either day or night. I and my maids will fast with you. If you will do this, I'll go to the king, even though it's forbidden. If I die, I die."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai,

Contextual Overview

⁵ Then Esther called for Hatach, [one] of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to wait upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it was. ⁶ And Hatach went forth to Mordecai, unto the public place of the city which was before the king's gate. ⁷ And Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and of the sum of money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them. ⁸ And he gave him a copy of the writing of the decree that had been given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew [it] to Esther, and to declare [it] to her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, for her people. ⁹ And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai. ¹⁰ And Esther spoke to Hatach, and gave him commandment unto Mordecai: ¹¹ All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces do know that whoever, whether man or woman, shall come to the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is *one* law, to put [him] to death, except [such] to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live; and I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days. ¹² And they told Mordecai Esther's words. ¹³ And Mordecai bade to answer Esther: Imagine not in thy heart that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews. ¹⁴ For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there arise relief and deliverance to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall perish. And who knows whether thou art [not] come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

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Reciprocal: Daniel 2:18 - they would

Cross-References

Genesis 4:24
If Cain shall be avenged seven-fold; Lemech seventy and seven fold.

Leviticus 26:18
And if for this ye hearken not unto me, I will punish you sevenfold more for your sins,

Leviticus 26:21
And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me, I will bring sevenfold more plagues upon you according to your sins.

Leviticus 26:24
then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will smite you, even I, sevenfold for your sins.

Leviticus 26:28
then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven-fold for your sins.

1 Kings 16:7
And also through the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani the word of Jehovah came against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight of Jehovah, provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he had smitten him.

Psalms 59:11
Slay them not, lest my people forget; by thy power make them wander, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.

Psalms 79:12
And render unto our neighbours, sevenfold into their bosom, their reproach, wherewith they have reproached thee, O Lord.

Proverbs 6:31
and if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.

Ezekiel 9:4
and Jehovah said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that are done in the midst thereof.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer. Which follows, and was sent by the messengers she sent the above to him.