Greek Esther 4:11-13

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹¹ “All nations of the empire know that if any man or woman goes to the king inside the inner court without being called, there is no escape for that person. Only the one to whom the king stretches out the golden sceptre is safe—and it is now thirty days since I was called to go to the king.”’

¹² When Hachratheus delivered her entire message to Mordecai, ¹³ Mordecai told him to go back and say to her, ‘Esther, do not say to yourself that you alone among all the Jews will escape alive.