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The king extended the gold sceptre(A) towards Esther, so she got up and stood before the king.

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,(B) 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.(C) For how could I bear to see the disaster that would come on my people?(D) How could I bear to see the destruction of my relatives? ’(E)

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