8 Also, he gave him a copy of the edict that was hanging up in Susa, so that he would show it to the queen and advise her to go in to the king and beg him on behalf of her people.
9 And Hathach returned and informed Esther of all that Mordecai had said.
10 She answered him, and ordered him say to Mordecai:
11 'All the servants of the king and all the provinces that are under his realm understand that anyone, whether man or woman, who enters the king's inner court, who has not been summoned, is immediately to be put to death without any delay, unless the king should happen to extend the golden scepter to him, as a sign of clemency, so that he will be able to live. How then can I go in to the king, when, for thirty days now, I have not been called to him?'
12 And when Mordecai had heard this, he again sent word to Esther, saying, 'Do not think that you will save so much as your own soul, just because you are in the king's house and are above all the Jews.
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