³ Then Queen Esther answered, ^(A)“If I have found favour in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be granted me for my wish, and my people for my request.

⁵ Esther rose and stood before the king. And she said, “If it please the king, ^(A)and if I have found favour in his sight, and if the thing seems right before the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let an order be written to revoke ^(B)the letters devised by Haman ^(C)the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the provinces of the king.