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15 Then Esther bade them return answer unto Mordecai:
16 'Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day; I also and my maidens will fast in like manner; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish.'
17 So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.