11. `All servants of the king, and people of the provinces of the king, do know that any man and woman, who cometh in unto the king, unto the inner court, who is not called--one law [of] his [is] to put [them] to death, apart from him to whom theking holdeth out the golden sceptre, then he hath lived; and I--I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.'
12. And they declare to Mordecai the words of Esther,
13. and Mordecai speaketh to send back unto Esther: `Do not think in thy soul to be delivered [in] the house of the king, more than all the Jews,
14. but if thou keep entirely silent at this time, respite and deliverance remaineth to the Jews from another place, and thou and the house of thy fathers are destroyed; and who knoweth whether for a time like this thou hast come to the kingdom?'
15. And Esther speaketh to send back unto Mordecai:
16. `Go, gather all the Jews who are found in Shushan, and fast for me, and do not eat nor drink three days, by night and by day; also I and my young women do fast likewise, and so I go in unto the king, that [is] not according to law, and when Ihave perished--I have perished.'
17. And Mordecai passeth on, and doth according to all that Esther hath charged upon him.