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Esther 4 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

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Mordecai Requests Esther’s Help

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:1 - When Mordecai learned about all that had been done, he tore his clothes, put on burlap and ashes, and went out into the city, crying with a loud and bitter wail.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:2 - He went as far as the gate of the palace, for no one was allowed to enter the palace gate while wearing clothes of mourning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:3 - And as news of the king’s decree reached all the provinces, there was great mourning among the Jews. They fasted, wept, and wailed, and many people lay in burlap and ashes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:4 - When Queen Esther’s maids and eunuchs came and told her about Mordecai, she was deeply distressed. She sent clothing to him to replace the burlap, but he refused it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:5 - Then Esther sent for Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs who had been appointed as her attendant. She ordered him to go to Mordecai and find out what was troubling him and why he was in mourning.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:6 - So Hathach went out to Mordecai in the square in front of the palace gate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:7 - Mordecai told him the whole story, including the exact amount of money Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury for the destruction of the Jews.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:8 - Mordecai gave Hathach a copy of the decree issued in Susa that called for the death of all Jews. He asked Hathach to show it to Esther and explain the situation to her. He also asked Hathach to direct her to go to the king to beg for mercy and plead for her people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:9 - So Hathach returned to Esther with Mordecai’s message.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:10 - Then Esther told Hathach to go back and relay this message to Mordecai:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:11 - “All the king’s officials and even the people in the provinces know that anyone who appears before the king in his inner court without being invited is doomed to die unless the king holds out his gold scepter. And the king has not called for me to come to him for thirty days.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:12 - So Hathach[fn] gave Esther’s message to Mordecai.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:13 - Mordecai sent this reply to Esther: “Don’t think for a moment that because you’re in the palace you will escape when all other Jews are killed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:14 - If you keep quiet at a time like this, deliverance and relief for the Jews will arise from some other place, but you and your relatives will die. Who knows if perhaps you were made queen for just such a time as this?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:15 - Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:16 - “Go and gather together all the Jews of Susa and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will do the same. And then, though it is against the law, I will go in to see the king. If I must die, I must die.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:17 - So Mordecai went away and did everything as Esther had ordered him.
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Esther Chapter 4 — Additional Translations:

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