Esther 4:11-13

Good News Translation

¹¹ “If anyone, man or woman, goes to the inner courtyard and sees the king without being summoned, that person must die. That is the law; everyone, from the king's advisers to the people in the provinces, knows that. There is only one way to get around this law: if the king holds out his gold scepter to someone, then that person's life is spared. But it has been a month since the king sent for me.”

¹² When Mordecai received Esther's message, ¹³ he sent her this warning: “Don't imagine that you are safer than any other Jew just because you are in the royal palace.