8On that day King Ahasuerus gave Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews; and Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he was to her. ²And the king removed his signet ring that he had taken away from Haman, and he gave it to Mordecai. So Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.

³And Esther again spoke before the king, and she fell before his feet and wept, pleading for his grace to avert Haman the Agagite’s evil plan and the plot that he devised against the Jews. ⁴And the king held out to Esther the scepter of gold, and Esther rose and stood before the king, ⁵and she said, “If it is good to the king, and if I have found favor before him,^a and if the king is pleased with this matter, and I have his approval,^b let an edict be written to revoke the letters of the plans of Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews that are in all the provinces of the king. ⁶For how can I bear^c to look on the disaster that will find my people, and how can I bear^d to look on the destruction of my family?” ⁷And King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Look, I have given Haman’s house to Esther, and they have hanged him on the gallows because he plotted against^e the Jews. ⁸Write as you see fit^f concerning the Jews in the name of the king, and seal it with the king’s signet ring; for a decree that is written in the name of the king and sealed with the king’s signet ring cannot be revoked.”

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Footnotes

aOr “if I have won his favor”
bLiterally “I am good in his eyes”
cLiterally “how am I able”
dLiterally “how am I able”
eLiterally “sent his hand against”
fLiterally “as it is good in your eyes”