Tribute to Xerxes and Mordecai
Esther 16:9
In 3 translations
- KJV
- Both by changing our purposes, and always judging things that are evident with more equal proceeding.
- DRC
- Neither must you think, if we command different things, that it cometh of the levity of our mind, but that we give sentence according to the quality and necessity of times, as the profit of the commonwealth requireth.
- LXXE8:12
- adopting needful changes, and ever judging those cases which come under our notice, with truly equitable decision.
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br8:12
- χρώμενοι ταῖς μεταβολαῖς, τὰ δὲ ὑπὸ τὴν ὄψιν ἐρχόμενα διακρίνοντες ἀεὶ μετʼ ἐπιεικεστέρας ἀπαντήσεως.
Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 8:12i in some Bibles
- 16:9 in most Bibles