Esther 4:8 - Exposition

Also he gave him the copy . In the original it is "a copy." Mordecai had had a copy made for the purpose of handing it to Esther . To make request to him for her people . If this was the phrase used by Mordecai to Hatach, Esther's nationality must now have ceased to be a secret, at any rate so far as her immediate attendants were concerned. Probably Mordecai felt that the truth must now be declared. It was only as the compatriots of the queen that he could expect to get the Jews spared.