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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Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact 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 out in 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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Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
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Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a message to Mordecai [saying]:
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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 for him, that he be put to death, except those 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.