Esther 8:6-8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁶ For how can I bear to see the calamity that is coming on my people? Or how can I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”^{(A) 7} Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “See, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hung him on the pole because he plotted to kill^[a] the Jews.^{(B) 8} You may write as you please with regard to the Jews, in the name of the king, and seal it with the king’s ring, for an edict written in the name of the king and sealed with the king’s ring cannot be revoked.”^(C)