Additions to Esther 13:3-5

Wycliffe Bible

³ And when I asked of my counsellors, how this might be (ful)filled, one, Haman by name, that (sur)passed other men in wisdom and faithfulness, and was the second after the king, [Me forsooth seeking of my counsellors, how that might be fulfilled, one, that in wisdom and faith other men passed, and was after the king the second, Haman by name,]

⁴ showed to me, that a people was scattered in all the roundness of lands, the which people used new laws, and did against the custom of all folks, and despised the commandments of kings, and defouled by his dissention the according of all nations. [told to me in all the world of lands to be a people scattered, that new should use laws, and, against the custom of all Gentiles doing, the behests of the kings despise, and the one accord or the concord of diverse nations with their dissentions defoul.]

⁵ And when we had learned this thing, and saw, that one folk rebel against all the kind of men, and that it used wayward laws, and was contrary to our commandments, and disturbed, or troubled, the peace and according of provinces subject to us, [The which thing when we had learned, seeing one folk rebel against all kind of men to use shrewd (or depraved) laws, and to our behests to go against, and to disturb the peace and the accord of the provinces subject to us,]