RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

Mordechai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with
ashes, and went out into the middle of the city, and cried
with a loud and a bitter cry;
2 And came before the melech’s gate: for none might
enter into the melech’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
3 And in every province, wherever the melech’s
commandment and his decree came, there was great
mourning among the Yahudim, and fasting, and weeping,
and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
4 So Esther’s maids and her officers came and told it to
her. Then was the malka exceedingly in pain; and she sent
clothing to clothe Mordechai, and to take away his
sackcloth from him: but he refused.
5 Then called Esther for Hatach, one of the melech’s
officers, who was appointed to serve her, and gave him an
order to go to Mordechai, to know what it was, and why it
was.
6 So Hatach went forth to Mordechai to the street of the
city, which was before the melech’s gate.
7 And Mordechai told him of all that had happened to
him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had
promised to pay in to the melech’s treasuries for the
Yahudim, in order to destroy them.
8 Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree
that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to show it to
Esther, and to declare it to her, and to order her that she
should go in to the melech, to make petition to him, and
to make a request before him for her people.
9 And Hatach came and told Esther the words of
Mordechai.
10 Again Esther spoke to Hatach, and gave him an
admonition to Mordechai;
11 All the melech’s avadim, and the people of the
melech’s provinces, do know, that anyone, whether man,
or woman, who shall come to the melech into the inner
court, who is not called, will be put to death by his law,
except the one to whom the melech shall hold out the
golden scepter, that he may live: but I have not been
called to come in to the melech these thirty days.
12 And they told Mordechai Esther’s words.
13 Then Mordechai commanded this answer to Esther,
Think not to yourself that you shall escape in the
melech’s bayit, more than all the other Yahudim.
14 For if you keep silent at this time, then shall their relief
and deliverance arise for the Yahudim from another
place; but you and your abba’s bayit shall be destroyed:
and who knows whether you have come to the malchut
for such a time as this? 4143
15 Then Esther ordered them to return to Mordechai with
this answer,
16 Go, gather together all the Yahudim that are present in
Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three
days and nights: I also and my virgins will fast as well;
and then I will go in to the melech, which is not according
to the law: and if I perish, I perish. 4144
17 So Mordechai went his way, and did according to all
that Esther had commanded him.
5 Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put
on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the
melech’s bayit, opposite the melech’s bayit: and the
melech sat upon his royal kesay in the royal bayit,
opposite the gate of the bayit.
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2 And it was so, when the melech saw Esther the malka
standing in the court, that she obtained favor in his sight:
and the melech held out to Esther the golden scepter that
was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top
of the scepter.
3 Then said the melech to her, What do you desire, Malka
Esther? And what is your request? It shall be given to you
even to half of the malchut.
4 And Esther answered, If it seems tov to the melech, let
the melech and Haman come this day to the banquet that I
have prepared for him.
5 Then the melech said, Hurry and get Haman, that he
may do as Esther has said. So the melech and Haman
came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
6 And the melech said to Esther at the banquet of wine,
What is your petition? And it shall be granted you: and
what is your request? Even to half of the malchut it shall
be given.
7 Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my
request is this;
8 If I have found favor in the sight of the melech, and if it
pleases the melech to grant my petition, and to perform
my request, let the melech and Haman come to the
banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do
tomorrow as the melech has said.
9 Then went Haman forth that day with gilah and with a
lev of simcha: but when Haman saw Mordechai in the
melech’s gate, that he did not stand up, nor move for him,
he was full of indignation against Mordechai.
10 Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he
came home, he sent and called for his chaverim, and
Zeresh his wife.
11 And Haman told them of the beauty of his riches, and
the multitude of his children, and all the things in which
the melech had promoted him, and how he had advanced
him above the princes and avadim of the melech.
12 Haman said moreover, Esther the malka did not let any
man come in with the melech to the banquet that she had
prepared except myself; and tomorrow I am invited with
her and also with the melech.
13 Yet all this means nothing to me, as long as I see
Mordechai the Yahudi sitting at the melech’s gate.
14 Then said Zeresh his wife and all his chaverim to him,
Let gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and tomorrow
speak to the melech that Mordechai may be hanged on it:
then go in joyfully with the melech to the banquet. And
the thing pleased Haman; and he ordered the gallows to
be made.
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On that night the melech could not sleep, and he
commanded someone to bring the scroll of records of the
chronicles; and they were read before the melech.
2 And it was found written, that Mordechai had informed
him of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the melech’s officers,
the guards of the palace door, who sought to lay hands on
the Melech Achashverosh.
3 And the melech said, What honor and dignity has been
done to Mordechai for this? Then said the melech’s
avadim that attended to him, There is nothing done for
him.
4 And the melech said, Who is in the court? Now Haman
had come into the outward court of the melech’s bayit, to
speak to the melech to hang Mordechai on the gallows