10Esther had not showed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not show it.


In Context

7 And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

8 So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together to Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also to the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.

9 And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king's house: and he preferred her and her maids to the best place of the house of the women.

10 Esther had not showed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not show it.

11 And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.

12 Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odors, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)

Esther 2:10 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:10Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew [it. ]

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:10Esther had not revealed her nationality and family background, because Mordecai had forbidden her to do so.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:10And she would not tell him her people nor her country. For Mardochai had charged her to say nothing at all of that:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:10Esther had not made known her people nor her kindred; for Mordecai had charged her that she should not make it known.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:10Esther had not made known her people nor her birth; for Mordecai had charged her that she should not make it known.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:10Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:10Esther had not showed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not show it.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:10Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives, because Mordecai had instructed her that she should not make it known.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:10Esther hath not declared her people, and her kindred, for Mordecai hath laid a charge on her that she doth not declare it;