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Esther 4 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:1 - But Mardochæus having perceived what was done, rent his garments, and put on sackcloth, and sprinkled dust upon himself; and having rushed forth through the open street of the city, he cried with a loud voice, A nation that has done no wrong is going to be destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:2 - And he came to the king's gate, and stood; for it was not lawful for him to enter into the palace, wearing sackcloth and ashes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:3 - And in every province where the letters were published, there was crying and lamentation and great mourning on the part of the Jews: they spread for themselves sackcloth and ashes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:4 - And the queen's maids and chamberlains went in and told her: and when she had heard what was done, she was disturbed; and she sent to clothe Mardochæus, and take away his sackcloth; but he consented not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:5 - So Esther called for her chamberlain Achrathæus, who waited upon her; and she sent to learn the truth from Mardochæus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:7 - And Mardochæus shewed him what was done, and the promise which Aman had made the king of ten thousand talents to be paid into the treasury, that he might destroy the Jews.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:8 - And he gave him the copy of the writing that was published in Susa concerning their destruction, to shew to Esther; and told him to charge her to go in and intreat the king, and to beg him for the people, remembering, said he, the days of thy low estate, how thou wert nursed by my hand: because Aman who holds the next place to the king has spoken against us for death. Do thou call upon the Lord, and speak to the king concerning us, to deliver us from death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:9 - So Achrathæus went in and told her all these words.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:10 - And Esther said to Achrathæus, Go to Mardochæus, and say,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:11 - All the nations of the empire know, that whoever, man or woman, shall go in to the king into the inner court uncalled, that person cannot live: only to whomsoever the king shall stretch out his golden sceptre, he shall live: and I have not been called to go in to the king, for these thirty days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:12 - And Achrathæus reported to Mardochæus all the words of Esther.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:13 - Then Mardochæus said to Achrathæus, Go, and say to her, Esther, say not to thyself that thou alone wilt escape in the kingdom, more than all the other Jews.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:14 - For if thou shalt refuse to hearken on this occasion, help and protection will be to the Jews from another quarter; but thou and thy father's house will perish: and who knows, if thou hast been made queen for this very occasion?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:15 - And Esther sent the man that came to her to Mardochæus, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:16 - Go and assemble the Jews that are in Susa, and fast ye for me, and eat not and drink not for three days, night and day: and I also and my maidens will fast; and then I will go in to the king contrary to the law, even if I must die.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:17 - So Mardochæus went and did all that Esther commanded him.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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Esther Chapter 4 — Additional Translations:

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