A copy of the writing, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published unto all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day.
Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Shushan to destroy them, to shew it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her; and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him, for her people.