She said, “If it pleases the king and I have found favor with him, if the matter seems right to the king and I am pleasing in his eyes,(A) let a royal edict be written. Let it revoke the documents the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces.(B) For how could I bear to see the disaster that would come on my people?(C) How could I bear to see the destruction of my relatives?” (D)

King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, “Look, I have given Haman’s estate to Esther,(E) and he was hanged on the gallows because he attacked[a] the Jews.(F)

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  1. 8:7 Lit stretched out his hand against

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