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Esther 4:13

“He sent back to her this reply: “Do not imagine that because you are in the king’s palace you alone will escape the fate of all the Jews.”

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¹¹“All the royal officials and the people of the king’s provinces know that one law applies to every man or woman who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned—that he be put to death. Only if the king extends the gold scepter may that person live. But I have not been summoned to appear before the king for the past thirty days.”

¹²When Esther’s words were relayed to Mordecai,

¹³He sent back to her this reply: “Do not imagine that because you are in the king’s palace you alone will escape the fate of all the Jews.

¹⁴For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows if perhaps you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

¹⁵Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai:

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