- When Mordecai learned all that had been done, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city and wailed loudly and bitterly.
- He went as far as the king's gate, for no one was to enter the king's gate clothed in sackcloth.
- In each and every province where the command and decree of the king came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping and wailing; and many lay on sackcloth and ashes.
- Then Esther's maidens and her eunuchs came and told her, and the queen writhed in great anguish. And she sent garments to clothe Mordecai that he might remove his sackcloth from him, but he did not accept them.
- Then Esther summoned Hathach from the king's eunuchs, whom the king had appointed to attend her, and ordered him to go to Mordecai to learn what this was and why it was.
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- 末底改知道所作的這一切事、就撕裂衣服、穿麻衣、蒙灰塵、在城中行走、痛哭哀號.
- 到了朝門前停住腳步.因為穿麻衣的不可進朝門。
- 王的諭旨所到的各省各處、猶大人大大悲哀、禁食哭泣哀號.穿麻衣躺在灰中的甚多。
- 王后以斯帖的宮女和太監來把這事告訴以斯帖、他甚是憂愁.就送衣服給末底改穿、要他脫下麻衣、他卻不受。
- 以斯帖就把王所派伺候他的一個太監、名叫哈他革召來、吩咐他去見末底改、要知道這是甚麼事、是甚麼緣故.
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