2He came even before the king's gate, for no one is allowed inside the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
2He came even before the king's gate, for no one is allowed inside the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
1 Now when Mordecai found out all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and wailed loudly and a bitterly.
2 He came even before the king's gate, for no one is allowed inside the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
3 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; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
4 Esther's maidens and her eunuchs came and told her this, and the queen was exceedingly grieved. She sent clothing to Mordecai, to replace his sackcloth; but he didn't receive it.
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 came even before the king's gate; for none might enter into 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.
4:2and 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.