Esther 8:5-7
Holman Christian Standard Bible
5 She said, “If it pleases the king, and I have found approval before him, if the matter seems right to the king and I am pleasing in his sight,(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)
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- Esther 8:7 Lit stretched out his hand against
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