Esther 4:2
Esther 4:1-3 The Message (MSG)
When Mordecai learned what had been done, he ripped his clothes to shreds and put on sackcloth and ashes. Then he went out in the streets of the city crying out in loud and bitter cries. He came only as far as the King’s Gate, for no one dressed in sackcloth was allowed to enter the King’s Gate. As the king’s order was posted in every province, there was loud lament among the Jews—fasting, weeping, wailing. And most of them stretched out on sackcloth and ashes.
Esther 4:2 King James Version (KJV)
and came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
Esther 4:2 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
He went as far as the king’s gate, for no one was to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth.
Esther 4:2 New Century Version (NCV)
But Mordecai went only as far as the king’s gate, because no one was allowed to enter that gate dressed in rough cloth.
Esther 4:2 American Standard Version (ASV)
and he came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter within the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
Esther 4:2 New International Version (Anglicised) (NIVUK)
But he went only as far as the king’s gate, because no-one clothed in sackcloth was allowed to enter it.
Esther 4:2 New King James Version (NKJV)
He went as far as the front of the king’s gate, for no one might enter the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
Esther 4:2 Amplified Bible (AMP)
He went [only] as far as the king’s gate, because no one was to enter the king’s gate dressed in sackcloth.