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Source language
JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH   
ויבוא עד לפני שער המלך כי אין לבוא אל שער המלך בלבוש שק
Hebrew - Transliteration via code library   
vybvA `d lpny SH`r hmlk ky Ayn lbvA Al SH`r hmlk blbvSH SHq

Intermediate language
Vulgate (Latin)   
et hoc heiulatu usque ad fores palatii gradiens non enim erat licitum indutum sacco aulam regis intrare

King James Variants
American King James Version   
And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
King James 2000 (out of print)   
And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
King James Bible (Cambridge, large print)   
And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
Authorized (King James) Version   
and came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
New King James Version   
He went as far as the front of the king’s gate, for no one might enter the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
21st Century King James Version   
and came even before the king’s gate; for none might enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.

Other translations
American Standard Version   
and he came even before the king's gate: for none might enter within the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
Darby Bible Translation   
and came even before the king's gate; for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
Holy Bible: Douay-Rheims Version (Genuine Leather Black)   
And he came lamenting in this manner even to the gate of the palace: for no one clothed with sackcloth might enter the king's court.
ERV 1885 English Revised Version with Strong's Concordance   
and he came even before the king's gate: for none might enter within the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
English Standard Version Journaling Bible   
He went up to the entrance of the king’s gate, for no one was allowed to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth.
God's Word   
He even went right up to the king's gate. (No one could enter it wearing sackcloth.)
Holman Christian Standard Bible   
He only went as far as the King's Gate, since the law prohibited anyone wearing sackcloth from entering the King's Gate.
International Standard Version   
He came as far as the front of the king's gate, because no one was allowed to enter the king's gate clothed in sackcloth.
NET Bible   
But he went no further than the king's gate, for no one was permitted to enter the king's gate clothed in sackcloth.
New American Standard Bible   
He went as far as the king's gate, for no one was to enter the king's gate clothed in sackcloth.
New International Version   
But he went only as far as the king's gate, because no one clothed in sackcloth was allowed to enter it.
New Living Translation   
He went as far as the gate of the palace, for no one was allowed to enter the palace gate while wearing clothes of mourning.
Webster's Bible Translation   
And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
The World English Bible   
He came even before the king's gate, for no one is allowed inside the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
EasyEnglish Bible   
Nobody who was wearing sackcloth could go into the yard of the palace. So Mordecai stopped at the king's gate.
Young‘s Literal Translation   
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.
New Life Version   
He went as far as the king’s gate, for no one was to go through the king’s gate wearing cloth made from hair.
The Voice Bible   
When he came to the king’s gate, not far from the palace, he stopped since those wearing sackcloth were not permitted to enter it and disrupt the mood of the court.
Living Bible   
Then he stood outside the gate of the palace, for no one was permitted to enter in mourning clothes.
New Catholic Bible   
But he came to a halt at the entrance to the king’s gate because no one wearing sackcloth was allowed to go in.
Legacy Standard Bible   
And he went as far as the king’s gate, for no one was to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth.
Jubilee Bible 2000   
and came before the king’s gate; for no one was allowed to enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
Christian Standard Bible   
He went only as far as the King’s Gate, since the law prohibited anyone wearing sackcloth from entering the King’s Gate.
Amplified Bible © 1954   
He came and stood before the king’s gate, for no one might enter the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
New Century Version   
But Mordecai went only as far as the king’s gate, because no one was allowed to enter that gate dressed in rough cloth.
The Message   
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.
Evangelical Heritage Version ™   
He went right up to the king’s gate, even though no one clothed with sackcloth was allowed to enter it.
New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
he went up to the entrance of the king’s gate, for no one might enter the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
Good News Translation®   
until he came to the entrance of the palace. He did not go in because no one wearing sackcloth was allowed inside.
Wycliffe Bible   
and he went with this yelling unto the gates of the palace; for it was not leaveful (for) a man clothed with a sackcloth to enter into the hall of the king (for it was not lawful for someone clothed in sackcloth to enter into the king’s hall).
Contemporary English Version   
But he could go only as far as the palace gate, because no one wearing sackcloth was allowed inside the palace.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition   
he went up to the entrance of the king’s gate, for no one might enter the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition   
he went up to the entrance of the king’s gate, for no one might enter the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition   
he went up to the entrance of the king’s gate, for no one might enter the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
Common English Bible © 2011   
He went only as far as the King’s Gate because it was against the law for anyone to pass through it wearing mourning clothes.
Amplified Bible © 2015   
He went [only] as far as the king’s gate, because no one was to enter the king’s gate dressed in sackcloth.
English Standard Version Anglicised   
He went up to the entrance of the king's gate, for no one was allowed to enter the king's gate clothed in sackcloth.
New American Bible (Revised Edition)   
till he came before the royal gate, which no one clothed in sackcloth might enter.
New American Standard Bible   
And he came as far as the king’s gate, for no one was to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth.
The Expanded Bible   
But Mordecai went only as far as the king’s gate, because no one was allowed to enter that gate dressed in ·rough cloth [burlap; sackcloth].
Tree of Life Version   
He went only as far as the king’s gate, because no one could enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth.
Revised Standard Version   
he went up to the entrance of the king’s gate, for no one might enter the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
New International Reader's Version   
But he only went as far as the palace gate. That’s because no one dressed in that rough clothing was allowed to go through it.
BRG Bible   
And came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
Complete Jewish Bible   
He stopped before entering the King’s Gate, since no one was allowed to go inside the King’s Gate wearing sackcloth.
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised   
he went up to the entrance of the king’s gate, for no one might enter the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
Orthodox Jewish Bible   
And came even before the Sha’ar HaMelech; for none might enter into the Sha’ar HaMelech clothed with sackcloth.
Names of God Bible   
He even went right up to the king’s gate. (No one could enter it wearing sackcloth.)
Modern English Version   
He went as far as the king’s gate because no one was allowed to enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
Easy-to-Read Version   
But Mordecai went only as far as the king’s gate. No one was allowed to enter the gate dressed in sackcloth.
International Children’s Bible   
But Mordecai went only as far as the king’s gate. This was because no one was allowed to enter that gate dressed in rough cloth.
Lexham English Bible   
he went up to the entrance of the gate of the king, for he could not go to the gate of the king in sackcloth.
New International Version - UK   
But he went only as far as the king’s gate, because no one clothed in sackcloth was allowed to enter it.