Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor 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)

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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,(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)

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