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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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