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When Mordecai
learned
all
that had been done,
he tore
his clothes,
put
on sackcloth
and ashes,
and went
out into the midst
of the city
and wailed
loudly
and bitterly.
2
He went
as far
as
the king's
gate
,
for no one
was to enter
the king's
gate
clothed
in sackcloth.
3
In each
and every
province
where
the command
and decree
of the king
came,
there was great
mourning
among the Jews,
with fasting,
weeping
and wailing;
and many
lay
on sackcloth
and ashes.
4
Then Esther's
maidens
and her eunuchs
came
and told
her, and the queen
writhed
in great
anguish. And she sent
garments
to clothe
Mordecai
that he might remove
his sackcloth
from him, but he did not accept
them.
5
Then Esther
summoned
Hathach
from the king's
eunuchs,
whom
the king had appointed
to attend
her, and ordered
him to go to Mordecai
to learn
what
this
was and why
it was.
6
So Hathach
went
out to Mordecai
to the city
square
in front
of the king's
gate.
7
Mordecai
told
him all
that had happened
to him, and the exact amount
of money
that Haman
had promised
to pay
to the king's
treasuries
for the destruction
of the Jews.
8
He also gave
him a copy
of the text
of the edict
which
had been issued
in Susa
for their destruction,
that he might show
Esther
and inform
her, and to order
her to go
in to the king
to implore his favor
and to plead
with him for her people.
9
Hathach
came
back and related
Mordecai's
words
to Esther.
10
Then Esther
spoke
to Hathach
and ordered
him to reply to Mordecai:
11
"All
the king
's
servants
and the people
of
the king
's
provinces
know
that for any
man
or woman
who
comes
to
the king
to the inner
court
who
is not summoned,
he has but one
law,
that he be put to death,
unless
the king
holds
out to him the golden
scepter
so that he may live.
And I have not been summoned
to come
to
the king
for these
thirty
days."
12
They related
Esther's
words
to Mordecai.
13
Then Mordecai
told
them to reply
to Esther,
"Do not imagine
that you in the king's
palace
can escape
any more than
all
the Jews.
14
"For if
you remain
silent
at this
time,
relief
and deliverance
will arise
for the Jews
from another
place
and you and your father's
house
will perish.
And who
knows
whether
you have not attained
royalty
for such a time
as this?"
15
Then Esther
told
them to reply
to Mordecai,
16
"Go,
assemble
all
the Jews
who are found
in Susa,
and fast
for me; do not eat
or drink
for three
days,
night
or day.
I and my maidens
also
will fast
in the same
way. And thus
I will go
in to the king,
which
is not according to the law;
and if
I perish,
I perish."
17
So Mordecai
went away
and did
just
as Esther
had commanded
him.
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