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1 When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went through the city, wailing with a loud and bitter cry; 2 he went up to the entrance of the king’s gate, for no one might enter the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth. Esther 4:1-2, NRSV Catholic Edition. Copyright © 1989, 1993 by the National Council of the Churches of Christ.
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