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* Now when Mordecai knew all that was done , Mordecai tore his clothes , and put on sackcloth with ashes , and went out into the midst of the city , and cried with a loud and a bitter cry . * And he came even before the king 's gate , for none might enter inside the king 's gate clothed with sackcloth . * And in every province , wherever the king 's commandment and his decree came , there was great mourning among the Jews , and fasting , and weeping , and wailing , and many lay in sackcloth and ashes . * And Esther 's maidens and her chamberlains came and told it to her . And the queen was exceedingly grieved . And she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai , and to take his sackcloth from off him , but he did not receive it . * Then Esther called for Hathach , one of the king 's chamberlains whom he had appointed to attend upon her , and charged him to go to Mordecai , to know what this was , and why it was . * So Hathach went forth to Mordecai to the broad place of the city , which was before the king 's gate . * And 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 . * 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 Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai . * Then Esther spoke to Hathach , and gave him a message to Mordecai [saying ,] * All the king 's servants , and the people of the king 's provinces , 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 th * And they told Esther 's words to Mordecai . * Then Mordecai bade them return answer to Esther , Think not with thyself that thou shall escape in the king 's house more than all the Jews . * For if thou altogether keep quiet at this time , then relief and deliverance will arise to the Jews from another place , but thou and thy father 's house will perish . And who knows whether thou have not come to the kingdom for such a * Then Esther bade them return answer to Mordecai , * Go , gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan , and fast ye for me , and neither eat nor drink three days , night or day . I also and my maidens will fast in like manner . And so I will go in to the king , which is not acc * So Mordecai went his way , and did according to all that Esther had commanded him .

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