Translation comparison

Additions to Esther 15:2 in 1 translation

Every translation here words this verse identically, which is itself worth knowing — there is no interpretive fork to weigh.

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Early modern English

Seventeenth-century wording and sentence shape. Familiar, rhythmic, and the version most quotations you have heard are taken from.

King James Version

KJV

And being gloriously adorned, after she had called upon God, who is the beholder and saviour of all things, she took two maids with her:

1611 / 1769 · Public domain · The Authorised Version, revised to the 1769 Blayney text. Includes the Apocrypha as printed in 1611.

The verses either side

King James text. A comparison is easier to judge when you can see the sentence the verse sits inside.

1And upon the third day, when she had ended her prayers, she laid away her mourning garments, and put on her glorious apparel.

2And being gloriously adorned, after she had called upon God, who is the beholder and saviour of all things, she took two maids with her:

3And upon the one she leaned, as carrying herself daintily;

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