Esther 4:2
And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.In other versions
and he came even before the king's gate: for none might enter within the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
ASV
And he came even before the king's doorway; for no one might come inside the king's door clothed in haircloth.
BBE
and came even before the king's gate; for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
DBY
and he came even before the king's gate: for none might enter within the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
WEB
and he cometh in unto the front of the gate of the king, but none is to come in unto the gate of the king with a sackcloth-garment.
YLT
And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
ENG
And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
WBT
But he went only as far as the king’s gate, because the law prohibited anyone wearing sackcloth from entering that gate.
BSB
In context
1When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
2And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
3And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
4So Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received it not.