3:3 Then the servants of the king who were at the king’s gate asked Mordecai, “Why are you violating the king’s commandment?”
1 tn Heb “heard”; KJV, NAB, NLT “published”; NIV, NRSV “proclaimed.”
2 tc The phrase “vast though it is” is not included in the LXX, although it is retained by almost all English versions.