Esther 4:15

Young's Literal Translation

And Esther speaketh to send back unto 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:

Darby Translation
And Esther bade to answer Mordecai:

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,

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 And Esther calleth to Hatach, of the eunuchs of the king, whom he hath stationed before her, and giveth him a charge for Mordecai, to know what this [is], and wherefore this [is]. ⁶ And Hatach goeth out unto Mordecai, unto a broad place of the city, that [is] before the gate of the king, ⁷ and Mordecai declareth to him all that hath met him, and the explanation of the money that Haman said to weigh to the treasuries of the king for the Jews, to destroy them, ⁸ and the copy of the writing of the law that had been given in Shushan to destroy them he hath given to him, to shew Esther, and to declare [it] to her, and to lay a charge on her to go in unto the king, to make supplication to him, and to seek from before him, for her people. ⁹ And Hatach cometh in and declareth to Esther the words of Mordecai, ¹⁰ and Esther speaketh to Hatach, and chargeth him for Mordecai: ¹¹ `All servants of the king, and people of the provinces of the king, do know that any man and woman, who cometh in unto the king, unto the inner court, who is not called -- one law [of] his [is] to put [them] to death, apart from him to whom the king holdeth out the golden sceptre, then he hath lived; and I -- I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.' <sup>12</sup> And they declare to Mordecai the words of Esther, <sup>13</sup> and Mordecai speaketh to send back unto Esther: `Do not think in thy soul to be delivered [in] the house of the king, more than all the Jews, ¹⁴ but if thou keep entirely silent at this time, respite and deliverance remaineth to the Jews from another place, and thou and the house of thy fathers are destroyed; and who knoweth whether for a time like this thou hast come to the kingdom?'

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Reciprocal: Daniel 2:18 - they would

Cross-References

Genesis 4:24
For sevenfold is required for Cain, And for Lamech seventy and sevenfold.'

Leviticus 26:18
`And if unto these ye hearken not to Me, -- then I have added to chastise you seven times for your sins;

Leviticus 26:21
`And if ye walk with Me [in] opposition, and are not willing to hearken to Me, then I have added to you a plague seven times, according to your sins,

Leviticus 26:24
then I have walked -- I also -- with you in opposition, and have smitten you, even I, seven times for your sins;

Leviticus 26:28
then I have walked with you in the fury of opposition, and have chastised you, even I, seven times for your sins.

1 Kings 16:7
And also by the hand of Jehu son of Hanani the prophet a word of Jehovah hath been concerning Baasha, and concerning his house, and concerning all the evil that he did in the eyes of Jehovah to provoke Him to anger with the work of his hands, to be like the house of Jeroboam, and concerning that for which he smote him.

Psalms 59:11
Slay them not, lest my people forget, Shake them by Thy strength, And bring them down, O Lord our shield.

Psalms 79:12
And turn Thou back to our neighbours, Sevenfold unto their bosom, their reproach, Wherewith they reproached Thee, O Lord.

Proverbs 6:31
And being found he repayeth sevenfold, All the substance of his house he giveth.

Ezekiel 9:4
And He calleth unto the man who is clothed with linen, who hath the scribe's inkhorn at his loins, and Jehovah saith unto him, `Pass on into the midst of the city, into the midst of Jerusalem, and thou hast made a mark on the foreheads of the men who are sighing and who are groaning for all the abominations that are done in its midst.'

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.