6. So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to city square which was before the king’s gate.
7. Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.
8. He also gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Shushan to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to urge her to go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, for her people.
9. Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
10. Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a message to Mordecai: