4 The king extended the gold scepteran toward Esther, so she got up and stood before the king.

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,ao 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.ap 6 For how could I bear to see the disaster that would come on my people?aq How could I bear to see the destruction of my relatives?”ar