Esther 8:11 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,”
Esther 8:11 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Esther 8:11 in 6 Bible Translations
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Esther 8:11 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“In those letters, the king granted the Jews who were in every city to gather themselves together and to defend their lives—to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish all the power of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to plunder their possessions,”
Esther 8:11 — World English Bible
Esther 8:11 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“wherein the king granted the Jews that were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,”
Esther 8:11 — American Standard Version
Esther 8:11 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“that the king hath given to the Jews who <FI>are<Fi> in every city and city, to be assembled, and to stand for their life, to cut off, to slay, and to destroy the whole force of the people and province who are distressing them, infants and women, and their spoil to seize.”
Esther 8:11 — Young's Literal Translation
Esther 8:11 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“[stating] that the king granted the Jews that were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that might assault them, [their] little ones and women, and to [take] the spoil of them for a prey,”
Esther 8:11 — Darby Translation
Esther 8:11 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“Wherein the King graunted the Iewes (in what cities so euer they were) to gather theselues together, and to stand for their life, and to roote out, to slay and to destroy al the power of the people and of the prouince that vexed them, both children and women, and to spoyle their goods:”
Esther 8:11 — Geneva Bible
Esther 8:11 in Context — Esther 8
9 Entonces fueron llamados los escribanos del rey en el mes tercero, que es Siván, á veintitrés del mismo; y escribióse conforme á todo lo que mandó Mardochêo, á los Judíos, y á los sátrapas, y á los capitanes, y á los príncipes de las provincias que había desde la India hasta la Ethiopía, ciento veintisiete provincias; á cada provincia según su escribir, y á cada pueblo conforme á su lengua, á los Judíos también conforme á su escritura y lengua.
10 Y escribió en nombre del rey Assuero, y selló con el anillo del rey, y envió letras por correos de á caballo, montados en dromedarios, [y] en mulos hijos de yeguas;
11 [Con intimación] de que el rey concedía á los Judíos que estaban en todas las ciudades, que se juntasen y estuviesen [á la defensa] de su vida, [prontos] á destruir, y matar, y acabar con todo ejército de pueblo ó provincia que viniese contra ellos, [aun] niños y mujeres, y su despojo para presa,
12 En un mismo día en todas las provincias del rey Assuero, en el trece del mes duodécimo, que es el mes de Adar.
13 La copia de la escritura que había de darse por ordenanza en cada provincia, para que fuese manifiesta á todos los pueblos, [decía] que los Judíos estuviesen apercibidos para aquel día, para vengarse de sus enemigos.
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