Esther 4:2NET Bible
But he went no further than the king's gate, for no one was permitted to enter the king's gate clothed in sackcloth.
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Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more shrewd than any of the wild animals that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Is it really true that God said, 'You must not eat from any tree of the orchard'?"
Genesis 3:17
But to Adam he said, "Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat from it,' cursed is the ground thanks to you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
Genesis 6:18
but I will confirm my covenant with you. You will enter the ark--you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
Genesis 7:7
Noah entered the ark along with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives because of the floodwaters.
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month--on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.