Ester 4:11

“Semua pejabat negara serta masyarakat di seluruh wilayah kerajaan mengetahui peraturan kerajaan yang menyatakan siapa saja yang ingin bertemu raja tanpa undangan akan dihukum mati— kecuali bila raja mengulurkan tongkat emasnya kepada orang itu. Sedangkan saya sendiri terakhir kali menerima undangan raja lebih dari sebulan yang lalu.”

All the king’s servants, and the people of the king’s provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.