Mordecai had instructed Esther not to reveal that she was a Jew. Now he was asking her not only to reveal that she was a Jew, but to approach the king and plead for the survival of the Jews. If he didn’t know it, there was a law that a person guilty of entering the king’s inner court without being summoned was automatically put to death…unless, the king held out the golden scepter to the intruder.
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