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Command Commandment Disobey Gate House King's Mordecai Mor'decai Officials Royal Servants Transgress Transgressing Wherefore
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English Standard Version
Then the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate said to Mordecai, “Why do you transgress the king’s command?”

New American Standard Bible
Then the king's servants who were at the king's gate said to Mordecai, "Why are you transgressing the king's command?"

King James Bible
Then the king's servants, which were in the king's gate, said unto Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the king's commandment?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The members of the royal staff at the King's Gate asked Mordecai, "Why are you disobeying the king's command?"

International Standard Version
The king's ministers who were in the king's gate asked Mordecai, "Why are you disobeying the king's command?"

NET Bible
Then the servants of the king who were at the king's gate asked Mordecai, "Why are you violating the king's commandment?"

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Then the king's advisers at the king's gate asked Mordecai, "Why do you ignore the king's command?"

King James 2000 Bible
Then the king's servants, who were in the king's gate, said unto Mordecai, Why transgress you the king's commandment?

American King James Version
Then the king's servants, which were in the king's gate, said to Mordecai, Why transgress you the king's commandment?

American Standard Version
Then the king's servants, that were in the king's gate, said unto Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the king's commandment?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the king's servants that were chief at the doors of the palace, said to him: Why dost thou alone not observe the king's commandment?

Darby Bible Translation
Then the king's servants, who were in the king's gate, said to Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the king's commandment?

English Revised Version
Then the king's servants, that were in the king's gate, said unto Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the king's commandment?

Webster's Bible Translation
Then the king's servants who were in the king's gate, said to Mordecai, Why dost thou transgress the king's commandment?

World English Bible
Then the king's servants, who were in the king's gate, said to Mordecai, "Why do you disobey the king's commandment?"

Young's Literal Translation
And the servants of the king, who are in the gate of the king, say to Mordecai, 'Wherefore art thou transgressing the command of the king?'
Lexicon
Then the king's
melek  (meh'-lek)
a king -- king, royal.
servants
`ebed  (eh'-bed)
a servant -- bondage, bondman, (bond-)servant, (man-)servant.
which were in the king's
melek  (meh'-lek)
a king -- king, royal.
gate
sha`ar  (shah'-ar)
an opening, i.e. door or gate -- city, door, gate, port (-er).
said
'amar  (aw-mar')
to say (used with great latitude)
unto Mordecai
Mordkay  (mor-dek-ah'-ee)
Mordecai, an Israelite -- Mordecai.
Why transgressest
`abar  (aw-bar')
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)
thou the king's
melek  (meh'-lek)
a king -- king, royal.
commandment
mitsvah  (mits-vaw')
a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the Law) -- (which was) commanded(-ment), law, ordinance, precept.
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