Esther (1:1)
English Standard Version
Now in the days of Ahasuerus,
the Ahasuerus who reigned from India to Ethiopia over 127 provinces,
in those days when King Ahasuerus sat on his royal throne in Susa, the citadel,
in the third year of his reign he gave a feast for all his officials and servants.
New International Version
This is what happened during the time of Xerxes,
the Xerxes who ruled over 127 provinces stretching from India to Cush.
At that time King Xerxes reigned from his royal throne in the citadel of Susa,
and in the third year of his reign he gave a banquet for all his nobles and officials.
King James Version
Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned,
from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and sven and twenty provinces:)
That in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan than palace,
In the third year of his reign he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants;
Catholic
It was in the days of Ahasuerus,
the Ahasuerus whose empire stretched from India to Ethiopia and comprised one hundred and twenty-seven provinces.
In those days, when King Ahasuerus was sitting on his royal throne in the citadel of Susa,
in the third year of his reign, he gave a banquet at his court for all his officers-of-state and ministers,
Jewish Version
And it came to pass in the days of Achashverosh,
the same Achashverosh who ruled from Hodu to Cush, one hundred and twenty-seven provinces.
In those days, when King Achashverosh sat on his royal throne, which was in Shushan the capital --
In the third year of his reign, he made a feast for all his ministers and servants;
