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Go, and gather together all the Jews whom thou shalt find in Susan, and pray ye for me. Neither eat nor drink for three days and three nights: and I with my handmaids will fast in like manner, and then I will go in to the king, against the law, not being called, and expose myself to death and to danger.
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So Mardochai went, and did all that Esther had commanded him.
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But Mardochai besought the Lord, remembering all his works,
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And said: O Lord, Lord, almighty king, for all things are in thy power, and there is none that can resist thy will, if thou determine to save Israel.
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Thou hast made heaven and earth, and all things that are under the cope of heaven.