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quae cum audisset Mardocheus scidit vestimenta sua etindutus est sacco spargens cinerem capiti et in platea mediaecivitatis voce magna clamabat ostendens amaritudinem animi sui

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et hoc heiulatu usque ad fores palatii gradiens non enimerat licitum indutum sacco aulam regis intrare

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in omnibus quoque provinciis oppidis ac locis ad quaecrudele regis dogma pervenerat planctus ingens erat apudIudaeos ieiunium ululatus et fletus sacco et cinere multis prostrato utentibus

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ingressae sunt autem puellae Hester et eunuchinuntiaveruntque ei quod audiens consternata est et misit vestemut ablato sacco induerent eum quam accipere noluit

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accitoque Athac eunucho quem rex ministrum ei dederatpraecepit ut iret ad Mardocheum et disceret ab eo cur hocfaceret

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egressusque Athac ivit ad Mardocheum stantem in plateacivitatis ante ostium palatii

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qui indicavit ei omnia quae acciderant quomodo Amanpromisisset ut in thesauros regis pro Iudaeorum nece inferretargentum

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exemplarque edicti quod pendebat in Susis dedit ei utreginae ostenderet et moneret eam ut intraret ad regem etdeprecaretur eum pro populo suo

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regressus Athac nuntiavit Hester omnia quae Mardocheusdixerat

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quae respondit ei et iussit ut diceret Mardocheo

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omnes servi regis et cunctae quae sub dicione eius suntnorunt provinciae quod sive vir sive mulier invocatus interiusatrium regis intraverit absque ulla cunctatione statiminterficiatur nisi forte rex auream virgam ad eum tetenderitpro signo clementiae atque ita possit vivere ego igitur quomodoad regem intrare potero quae triginta iam diebus non sum vocataad eum

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quod cum audisset Mardocheus

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rursum mandavit Hester dicens ne putes quod animam tuamtantum liberes quia in domo regis es prae cunctis Iudaeis

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si enim nunc silueris per aliam occasionem liberabunturIudaei et tu et domus patris tui peribitis et quis novit utrumidcirco ad regnum veneris ut in tali tempore parareris

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rursumque Hester haec Mardocheo verba mandavit

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vade et congrega omnes Iudaeos quos in Susis reppereris etorate pro me non comedatis et non bibatis tribus diebus acnoctibus et ego cum ancillulis meis similiter ieiunabo et tuncingrediar ad regem contra legem faciens invocata tradensque memorti et periculo

4:17
ivit itaque Mardocheus et fecit omnia quae ei Hesterpraeceperat

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004:001
When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent 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;

004:002
And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.

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And in every province, whithersoever 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.

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So Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received it not.

004:005
Then called Esther for Hatach, one of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it was.

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So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city, which was before the king's gate.

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And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto 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 shew it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people.

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And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.

004:010
Again Esther spake unto Hatach, and gave him commandment unto Mordecai;

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All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or women, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.

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And they told to Mordecai Esther's words.

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Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.

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For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

004:015
Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer,

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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 likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.

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So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.

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