³ Queen Esther answered, ‘If I have found favour with you, Your Majesty, and if the king is pleased,^(A) spare my life; this is my request. And spare my people; this is my desire.^(B)

⁵ She said, ‘If it pleases the king and I have found favour 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)