19 “If it meets the king’s approval, he should personally issue a royal decree. Let it be recorded in the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it cannot be revoked:(A) Vashti is not to enter King Ahasuerus’s presence, and her royal position is to be given to another woman who is more worthy than she.(B)

Read full chapter

19 If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.

Read full chapter

19 If it pleases the king, let a royal [a]decree go out from him, and let it be recorded in the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it will (A)not [b]be altered, that Vashti shall come no more before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal position to another who is better than she.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Esther 1:19 Lit. word
  2. Esther 1:19 pass away

Therefore, Your Majesty, establish the edict(A) and sign the document so that, as a law of the Medes and Persians, it is irrevocable and cannot be changed.”(B)

Read full chapter

Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.

Read full chapter

Now, O king, establish the decree and sign the writing, so that it cannot be changed, according to the (A)law of the Medes and Persians, which [a]does not alter.”

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Daniel 6:8 Lit. does not pass away

15 Then these men went together to the king and said to him, “You know, Your Majesty, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no edict or ordinance the king establishes can be changed.”(A)

Read full chapter

15 Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed.

Read full chapter

15 Then these men [a]approached the king, and said to the king, “Know, O king, that it is (A)the law of the Medes and Persians that no decree or statute which the king establishes may be changed.”

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Daniel 6:15 Lit. thronged before