Esther 4:11-13
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
11 “All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that if any man or woman goes to the king inside the inner court without being called, there is but one law; all alike are to be put to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter that he may live. And I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.” 12 And they told Mor′decai what Esther had said. 13 Then Mor′decai told them to return answer to Esther, “Think not that in the king’s palace you will escape any more than all the other Jews.
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