11 “All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s jurisdictional districts are aware that, as regards any man or woman that comes in to the king at the inner courtyard+ who is not called, his one law+ is to have [him] put to death; only in case the king holds out to him the golden scepter, he will also certainly stay alive.+ As for me, I have not been called to come in to the king now for thirty days.”

4 Later the king said: “Who is in the courtyard?” Now Haʹman himself had come into the outer courtyard+ of the king’s house to say to the king to hang Morʹde·cai on the stake+ that he had prepared for him.