Esther 4:9-11

Good News Translation

⁹ Hathach did this, ¹⁰ and Esther gave him this message to take back to Mordecai: 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.”