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ES-4:1 When 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;
ES-4:2 And came even before the king's gate: for none [might]
enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
ES-4:3 And 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.
ES-4:4 So 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.
ES-4:5 Then called Esther for Hatach, [one] of the king's
chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave
him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it [was], and why it
[was].
ES-4:6 So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the
city, which [was] before the king's gate.
ES-4:7 And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him,
and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to
the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.
ES-4:8 Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree
that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to show [it] unto
Esther, and to declare [it] unto her, and to charge her that she
should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and
to make request before him for her people.
ES-4:9 And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
ES-4:10 Again Esther spake unto Hatach, and gave him commandment
unto Mordecai;
ES-4:11 All the king's servants, and the people of the king's
provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall
come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called,
[there is] one law of his to put [him] to death, except such to
whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may
live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these
thirty days.
ES-4:12 And they told to Mordecai Esther's words.
ES-4:13 Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with
thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than
all the Jews.
ES-4:14 For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time,
[then] shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews
from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be
destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom
for [such] a time as this?
ES-4:15 Then Esther bade [them] return Mordecai [this answer],
ES-4:16 Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in
Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three
days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise;
and so will I go in unto the king, which [is] not according to
the law: and if I perish, I perish.
ES-4:17 So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that
Esther had commanded him.
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