Additions to Esther 13:4-6

Wycliffe Bible

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,]

⁶ we commanded, that whichever Haman showed, which (or who) is sovereign of all (the) provinces, and is the second from the king, and whom we honour in the place of (a) father, (that) they with their wives and children, be done away of (or by) their enemies, and no man have mercy upon them, in the fourteen day of the twelfth month (of) Adar, or March, of the present year; [we commanded, that whosoever Haman, that is provost to all provinces, and second from the king, and whom instead of a father we worship, shall show, with wives and free children be they done away of their enemies, and no man have mercy on them, the fourteenth day of the twelfth month Adar, of the year present;]