15. Then Ester bade them return Mordechai this answer,
16. Go, gather together kol HaYehudim that are found in Shushan, and declare ye a tzom for me, and neither eat nor drink shloshet yamim, lailah vayom. I also and my na'arot will undergo a tzom likewise; and so will I go in unto HaMelech, though it is not according to the dat; and if I perish, I perish.
17. So Mordechai went his way, and did according to all that Ester had commanded him.