2and came even before the king's gate; for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
2and came even before the king's gate; for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
1 And when Mordecai knew all that was done, Mordecai rent his garments, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and bitter cry,
2 and came even before the king's gate; for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
3 And in every province, wherever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing: many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
4 And Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her; and the queen was exceedingly grieved: and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him; but he received it not.
4:2But he went only as far as the king's gate, because no one clothed in sackcloth was allowed to enter it.
4:2And came even before the king’s gate: for none [might] enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
4:2And he came lamenting in this manner even to the gate of the palace: for no one clothed with sackcloth might enter the king's court.
4:2and he came even before the king's gate: for none might enter within the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
4:2and he came even before the king's gate: for none might enter within the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
4:2And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
4:2He came even before the king's gate, for no one is allowed inside the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
4:2and he cometh in unto the front of the gate of the king, but none is to come in unto the gate of the king with a sackcloth-garment.
4:2And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.