1
H4782
Now when Mordecai
H3045
found
H6213
out all that was done,
H4782
Mordecai
H7167
tore
H899
his clothes,
H3847
and put on
H8242
sackcloth
H665
with ashes,
H3318
and went out
H8432
into the midst
H5892
of the city,
H2199
and wailed
H1419
loudly
H4751
and bitterly.
2
H935
He came
H6440
even before
H4428
the king's
H8179
gate,
H935
for no one is allowed inside
H4428
the king's
H8179
gate
H3830
clothed
H8242
with sackcloth.
3
H4082
In every province,
H4725
wherever
H4428
the king's
H1697
commandment
H1697
and his decree
H5060
came,
H1419
there was great
H60
mourning
H3064
among the Jews,
H6685
and fasting,
H1065
and weeping,
H4553
and wailing;
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and many
H3331
lay
H8242
in sackcloth
H665
and ashes.
4
H635
Esther's
H5291
maidens
H5631
and her eunuchs
H935
came
H5046
and told
H4436
her this, and the queen
H3966
was exceedingly
H2342
grieved.
H7971
She sent
H899
clothing
H4782
to Mordecai,
H5493
to
H3847
replace
H8242
his sackcloth;
H6901
but he didn't receive it.
5
H635
Then Esther
H7121
called
H2047
for Hathach,
H4428
one of the king's
H5631
eunuchs,
H5975
whom he had appointed
H6440
to attend
H6680
her, and commanded
H4782
him to go to Mordecai,
H3045
to find out what this was, and why it was.
6
H2047
So Hathach
H3318
went out
H4782
to Mordecai,
H5892
to city
H7339
square
H6440
which was before
H4428
the king's
H8179
gate.
7
H4782
Mordecai
H5046
told
H7136
him of all that had happened
H6575
to him, and the exact sum
H3701
of the money
H2001
that Haman
H559
had promised
H8254
to pay
H4428
to the king's
H1595
treasuries
H6
for the destruction
H3064
of the Jews.
8
H5414
He also gave
H6572
him the copy
H3791
of the writing
H1881
of the decree
H5414
that was given
H7800
out in Shushan
H8045
to destroy
H7200
them, to show
H635
it to Esther,
H5046
and to declare
H6680
it to her, and to urge
H935
her to go in
H4428
to the king,
H2603
to make supplication
H1245
to him, and to make request
H6440
before
H5971
him, for her people.
11
H4428
"All the king's
H5650
servants,
H5971
and the people
H4428
of the king's
H4082
provinces,
H3045
know,
H376
that whoever, whether man
H802
or woman,
H935
comes
H4428
to the king
H6442
into the inner
H2691
court
H7121
without being called,
H259
there is one
H1881
law
H4191
for him, that he be put to death,
H905
except
H4428
those to whom the king
H3447
might hold out
H2091
the golden
H8275
scepter,
H2421
that he may live.
H7121
I have not been called
H935
to come in
H4428
to the king
H7970
these thirty
H3117
days."
13
H4782
Then Mordecai
H559
asked
H7725
them return answer
H635
to Esther,
H1819
"Don't think
H5315
to yourself
H4422
that you will escape
H4428
in the king's
H1004
house
H3064
any more than all the Jews.
14
H2790
For if you remain
H2790
silent
H6256
now, then
H7305
relief
H2020
and deliverance
H5975
will come
H3064
to the Jews
H312
from another
H4725
place,
H1
but you and your father's
H1004
house
H6
will perish.
H3045
Who knows
H5060
if you haven't come
H4438
to the kingdom
H6256
for such a time as this?"
16
H3212
"Go,
H3664
gather together
H3064
all the Jews
H4672
who are present
H7800
in Shushan,
H6684
and fast
H398
for me, and neither eat
H8354
nor drink
H7969
three
H3117
days,
H3915
night
H3117
or day.
H5291
I and my maidens
H6684
will also fast
H3651
the same way. Then
H935
I will go
H4428
in to the king,
H1881
which is against the law;
H6
and if I perish,
H6
I perish."