And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai. ] Both the case of the Jews, and the cause of it, and what he would have her do at this critical juncture.
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And Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.
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Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to show [it] to Esther, and to declare [it] to her, and to charge her that she should go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him for her people.
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And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
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Again Esther spoke to Hatach, and gave him commandment to Mordecai;
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All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whoever, whether man or woman, shall come to the king into the inner court, who is not called, [there is] one law of his to put [him] to death, except him to whom the king shall hold out the golden scepter, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.