Mordecai tears his clothes, puts on sackcloth with ashes, and wails loudly and bitterly in the middle of the city
모르드개가 옷을 찢고 굵은 베를 입고 성중에 나가서 대성 통곡함
Esther 4:1–3: now when Mordecai found out all that was done, Mordecai tears his clothes and puts on sackcloth with ashes, and goes out into the middle of the city, and wails loudly and bitterly. He comes even before the king’s gate, “for no one is allowed inside the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.” In every province, wherever 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. The Korean Revised Version names Mordecai once at 4:1 and gives 4:2 no subject of its own, where WEB reads “He came”, and at 4:3 reads 유다인이 크게 애통하여 금식하며 곡읍하며 부르짖고 (the Jews mourned greatly, fasting, weeping and crying out).
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- EST 4:1–3, engwebp
1Now when Mordecai found out all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the middle of the city, and wailed loudly and bitterly.
2He came even before the king’s gate, for no one is allowed inside the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
3In every province, wherever 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.
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Evidence: Esther 4:1–3
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Entry: Mordecai tears his clothes, puts on sackcloth with ashes, and wails loudly and bitterly in the middle of the city (event-est-4-mordecai-tears-his-clothes-and-wails-in-the-city)
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Current wording: Esther 4:1–3: now when Mordecai found out all that was done, Mordecai tears his clothes and puts on sackcloth with ashes, and goes out into the middle of the city, and wails loudly and bitterly. He comes even before the king’s gate, “for no one is allowed inside the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.” In every province, wherever 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. The Korean Revised Version names Mordecai once at 4:1 and gives 4:2 no subject of its own, where WEB reads “He came”, and at 4:3 reads 유다인이 크게 애통하여 금식하며 곡읍하며 부르짖고 (the Jews mourned greatly, fasting, weeping and crying out).
Cited evidence: EST 4:1–3, engwebp
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