14
"For if you remainsilent at thistime, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from anotherplace and you and your father'shouse will perish. And whoknowswhether you have not attainedroyalty for such a time as this?"
16
"Go, assembleall the Jews who are found in Susa, and fast for me; do not eat or drink for threedays, night or day. I and my maidensalso will fast in the sameway. And thus I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish."