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.
13 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.
14 For, if you remain silent now, the Jews will be delivered through some other opportunity, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for this reason, so that you would be prepared for such a time as this?'
15 And again Esther sent to Mordecai in these words:
16 'Go and gather together all the Jews whom you will find in Susa, and pray for me. Neither eat nor drink for three days and three nights, and I will fast with my handmaids similarly, and then I will go in to the king, doing what is against the law, not having been called, and so expose myself to mortal danger.'
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