4:10 Then Esther replied to Hathach with instructions for Mordecai: 4:11 “All the servants of the king and the people of the king’s provinces know that there is only one law applicable 1 to any man or woman who comes uninvited to the king in the inner court – that person will be put to death, unless the king extends to him the gold scepter, permitting him to be spared. 2 Now I have not been invited to come to the king for some thirty days!”
4:12 When Esther’s reply 3 was conveyed to Mordecai,
1 tn Heb “one is his law”; NASB “he (the king NIV) has but one law”
2 tn Heb “and he will live”; KJV, ASV “that he may live”; NIV “and spare his life.”
1 tn Heb “the words of Esther”; TEV, NLT “Esther’s message.”