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11 “All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that for any man or woman who (A)comes to the king to the inner court who is not summoned, (B)he has but one law, that he be put to death, unless the king holds out (C)to him the golden scepter so that he may live. And I have not been summoned to come to the king for these thirty days.” 12 So they told Esther’s words to Mordecai.

13 Then Mordecai said for them to respond to Esther, “Do not imagine that you in the king’s [a]house can escape any more than all the Jews.

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  1. Esther 4:13 Or palace