Esther 8:5-7

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⁵ She said, “If it pleases the king, and if I have won his favor, and if the thing seems right before the king, and I have his approval, let an order be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote giving orders to destroy the Jews who are in all the provinces of the king.^{(A) 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?”^{(B) 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.^(C)