Esther 4:7-14

7Mordecai told him everything that had happened to him, and 1the exact amount of money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the elimination of the Jews. 8He also gave him 2a copy of the text of the edict which had been issued in Susa for their annihilation, so that he might show Esther and inform her, and to order her to go in to the king to implore his favor and plead with him for her people.

9So Hathach came back and reported Mordecai’s words to Esther. 10Then Esther spoke to Hathach and ordered him to reply to Mordecai: 11“All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that for any man or woman who 3comes to the king in the inner courtyard, who is not summoned, 4he has only one law, that he be put to death, unless the king holds out 5to him the golden scepter so that he may live. And I have not been summoned to come to the king for these thirty days.” 12And they reported Esther’s words to Mordecai.

13Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not imagine that you in the king’s palace can escape any more than all the other Jews. 14For if you keep silent at this time, liberation and 6rescue will arise for the Jews from another place, and you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?”