⁹ Hathach went back and reported to Esther everything Mordecai had ·said [instructed]. ¹⁰ Then Esther told Hathach to tell Mordecai, ¹¹ “All the ·royal officers [ministers; officials] and people of the ·royal [king’s] ·states [provinces] know that no man or woman may ·go [come] to the king in the inner courtyard ·without being called [uninvited]. ·There is [He has] only one law about this: Anyone who enters must be put to death unless the king holds out his gold scepter. Then that person may live. And I have not been ·called [summoned; invited] to go to the king for thirty days.”