"For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?”
Esther 4:14
艾斯德爾傳:Chapter 4
3摩爾德開叫他回覆艾斯德爾說:「不要心想,一個猶太人在王宮裏就可保全性命!
14決不會。在這生死關頭,你若緘默不言,猶太人也必會從別處得到救援和援助。但是,在這光景下,你和你的家族必遭滅亡。誰知你之所以得涉足朝廷,不正是為了挽救現在的危機呢!」
15艾斯德爾令人轉告摩爾德開說:
16「去召集一切住在穌撒的猶太人,為我禁食,三天三夜不吃不喝。同時,我與我的宮女,也同樣禁食;此後,我就越規去見君王,即便我死,死也情願!」