Tribute to Xerxes and Mordecai
Esther 13:1
In 3 translations
- KJV
- The copy of the letters was this: The great king Artexerxes writeth these things to the princes and governours that are under him from India unto Ethiopia in an hundred and seven and twenty provinces.
- DRC
- And this was the copy of the letter: Artaxerxes the great king who reigneth from India to Ethiopia, to the princes and governors of the hundred and twenty-seven provinces, that are subject to his empire, greeting.
- LXXE3:13
- [And the following is the copy of the letter; The great king Artaxerxes writes thus to the rulers and inferior governors of a hundred and twenty-seven provinces, from India even to Ethiopia, who hold authority under him.
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br3:13
- “Τῆς δὲ ἐπιστολῆς ἐστι τὸ ἀντίγραφον τόδε. Βασιλεὺς μέγας Ἀρταξέρξης τοῖς ἀπὸ τῆς Ἰνδικῆς ἕως τῆς Αἰθιοπίας ἑκατὸν εἰκοσιεπτὰ χωρῶν ἄρχουσι καὶ τοπάρχαις ὑποτεταγμένοις τάδε γράφει.
Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 3:13a in some Bibles
- 13:1 in most Bibles