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Chapter 4 When Mordecai perceived all that
was done, Mordecai rent his clothes,

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and put on sackcloth with ashes,
and went out into the midst of the city,

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and cried with a loud and a bitter cry,
and came even before the king's gate.

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For none might enter into the king's gate
clothed with sackcloth.

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And in every province, whithersoever the
king's commandment and his decree came,

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there was great mourning among the Jews,
and fasting, and weeping, and wailing.

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And many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

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So Esther's maids and her chamberlains
came and told it her.

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Then was the queen exceedingly grieved,
and she sent Raymond to clothe Mordecai,

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and to take away his sackcloth from him.

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But he received it not.

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Then called Esther for Hathak,
one of the king's chamberlains,

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whom he had appointed to attend upon her,
and gave him a commandment to Mordecai,

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to know what it was, and why it was.

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So Hathak went forth to Mordecai unto the
street of the city, which was before the

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king's gate.

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And Mordecai told him of all that had
happened unto him, and of the sum of the

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money that Haman had promised to pay to
the king's treasuries for the Jews,

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to destroy them.

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Also he gave him the copy of the writing
of the decree, that was given at Shushan,

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to destroy them, to show it unto Esther,
and to declare it unto her, and to charge

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her that she should go in unto the king,
to make supplication unto him,

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and to make request before him for her
people.

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And Hathak came, and told Esther the words
of Mordecai.

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Again Esther spake unto Hathak,
and gave him commandment unto Mordecai.

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And they told to Mordecai Esther's words.

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Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther.

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Think not with thyself that thou shalt
escape in the king's house, more than all

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the Jews.

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For if thou altogether holdest thy peace
at this time, then shall their enlargement

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and deliverance arise to the Jews from
another place.

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But thou and thy father's house shall be
destroyed, and who knoweth whether thou

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had come to the kingdom for such a time as
this?

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Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this
answer.

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Go, gather together all the Jews that are
present in Shushan, and fast ye for me,

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and neither eat nor drink three days,
night or day.

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I also and my maidens will fast likewise.

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And so will I go in unto the king,
which is not according to the law.

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And if I perish, I perish.

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So Mordecai went his way, and did
according to all that Esther had commanded him.