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CHAP. IIII.
5 Mordecai giueth the Queene knowledge of the cruell decree
of the King against the Iewes. 16 Shee willeth that
they pray for her.
1 Now when Mordecai perceiued all that was
done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put
on sackecloth and ashes, and went out into the
middes of the citie, and cryed with a great crye,
and a bitter.
2 And he came euen before the Kings note gate,
but he might not enter within the Kings gate,
being clothed with sackecloth.
3 And in euery prouince, and place, whither
the Kings charge and his commission came, there
was great sorowe among the Iewes, and fasting,
and weeping and mourning, and note many laye in
sackecloth and in ashes.
4 ¶2; Then Esters maydes and her eunuches
came and tolde it her: therefore the Queene was
very heauie, and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai,
and to take away his sackecloth from him,
but he receiued it not.
5 Then called Ester Hatach one of the Kings
Gods prouidence.
eunuches, whom he note had appointed to serue her,
and gaue him a commandement vnto Mordecai,
to knowe what it was, and why it was.
6 So Hatach went foorth to Mordecai vnto
the streete of the citie, which was before the
Kings gate.
7 And Mordecai tolde him of all that which
had come vnto him, and of the note summe of the
siluer that Haman had promised to pay vnto the
Kings treasures, because of the Iewes, for to destroy
them.
8 Also he gaue him the note copy of the writing
and commission that was giuen at Shushan, to
destroy them, that he might shewe it vnto Ester
and declare it vnto her, and to charge her that
she should goe in to the King, and make petition
and supplication before him for her people.
9 ¶2; So when Hatach came, he told Ester the
wordes of Mordecai.
10 Then Ester sayde vnto Hatach, and commaunded
him to say vnto Mordecai,
11 All the Kings seruants and the people of
the Kings prouinces doe knowe, that whosoeuer,
man or woman, that commeth to the King into
the inner court, which is not called, there is a law
of his, that he shall dye, except him to whom the
King holdeth out the golden rodde, that he may
liue. Now I haue not bene called to come vnto
the King these thirtie dayes.
12 And they certified Mordecai of Esters
wordes.
13 And Mordecai saide, that they should answere
Ester thus, Thinke not with thy selfe that
thou shalt escape in the Kings house, more then
all the Iewes.
14 For if thou holdest thy peace at this time,
note comfort and deliuerance note shall appeare to the
Iewes out of another place, but thou and thy
fathers house shall perish: and who knoweth
whether thou art come to the kingdome for
note such a time?
15 Then Ester commanded to answere Mordecai,
16 Goe, and assemble all the Iewes that are
found in Shushan, & fast ye for me, and eate not,
nor drinke in three dayes, day nor night. I also
and my maydes will fast likewise, and so will I go
in to the King, which is not according to the
lawe: and if I perish, note I perish.
17 So Mordecai went his way, and did according
to all that Ester had commaunded him.
Geneva [1587], THE BIBLE: THAT IS, THE HOLY SCRIPTVRES CONTEINED IN THE OLDE AND NEWE TESTAMENT. TRANSLATED ACCORDING TO the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languages. With most profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance (Imprinted... by Christopher Barker [etc.], LONDON) [word count] [B07000].
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