Tribute to Xerxes and Mordecai
Esther 16:16
In 3 translations
- KJV
- And that they be children of the most high and most mighty, living God, who hath ordered the kingdom both unto us and to our progenitors in the most excellent manner.
- DRC
- And are the children of the highest and the greatest, and the ever living God, by whose benefit the kingdom was given both to our fathers and to us, and is kept unto this day.
- LXXE8:12
- But we find that the Jews, who have been consigned to destruction by the most abominable of men, are not malefactors, but living according to the justest laws,
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br8:12
- Ἡμεῖς δὲ τοὺς ὑπὸ τοῦ τρισαλιτηρίου παραδεδομένους εἰς ἀφανισμὸν Ἰουδαίους, εὑρίσκομεν οὐ κακούργους ὄντας δικαιοτάτοις δὲ πολιτευομένους νόμοις,
Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 8:12p in some Bibles
- 16:16 in most Bibles