Tribute to Xerxes and Mordecai
Esther 14:5
In 3 translations
- KJV
- From my youth up I have heard in the tribe of my family that thou, O Lord, tookest Israel from among all people, and our fathers from all their predecessors, for a perpetual inheritance, and thou hast performed whatsoever thou didst promise them.
- DRC
- I have heard of my father that thou, O Lord, didst take Israel from among all nations, and our fathers from all their predecessors, to possess them as an everlasting inheritance, and thou hast done to them as thou hast promised.
- LXXE4:17
- and to open the mouth of the Gentiles to speak the praises of vanities, and in order that a mortal king should be admired for ever.
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br4:17
- καὶ ἀνοῖξαι στόμα ἐθνῶν εἰς ἀρετὰς ματαίων, καὶ θαυμασθῆναι βασιλέα σάρκινον εἰς αἰῶνα.
Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 4:17p in some Bibles
- 14:5 in most Bibles