⁵ 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) 6} 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)

⁷ 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)