Esther 4:11-16 ▼

11 |Every servant of the king and every person in the king's provinces knows that for any man or woman who goes to the king in the inner court without being summoned there is only one law—that he be put to death—unless the king holds out the golden scepter to him. Only then he will live. For these last 30 days I've not been summoned to come to the king.|

12 They reported Esther's message to Mordecai.

13 Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, |Don't suppose that because you are in the palace, you will escape any more than the other Jewish people.

14 Indeed, if you are silent at this time, relief and deliverance will come to the Jewish people from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. Who knows but that you were brought to the kingdom for a time like this?|

15 Then Esther replied to Mordecai,

16 |Go and gather all the Jewish people who are in Susa and fast for me. Don't eat or drink for three days, night or day. Both I and my young women will also fast in the same way, and then I'll go in to the king, even though it's against the law. And if I perish, I perish.|