Esther 4:2
“And came euen before the kings gate: for none might enter into the kings gate clothed with sackcloth.”
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Esther 4:2 Context
1When Mordecai perceiued all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the citie, and cried with a loud and a bitter crie: 2And came euen before the kings gate: for none might enter into the kings gate clothed with sackcloth. 3And in euery prouince, whithersoeuer the kings commaundement, and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Iewes, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes. 4¶ So Esthers maides and her chamberlaines came, and told it her: then was the Queene exceedingly grieued, and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away the sackcloth from him: but he receiued it not.
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And came even before the king's gate: for none [might] enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
- King James Version
He went as far as the king's gate, for no one was to enter the king's gate clothed in sackcloth.
- New American Standard Version (1995)