¹¹ “All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that any man or woman who goes into ^(A)the inner court to the king, who has not been called, ^(B)he has but one law: put all to death, except the one ^(C)to whom the king holds out the golden scepter, that he may live. Yet I myself have not been ^(D)called to go in to the king these thirty days.”

² So it was, when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, that ^(A)she found favor in his sight, and ^(B)the king held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. Then Esther went near and touched the top of the scepter.