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Then she spoke once again to the king and, falling at his feet, she asked him to avert all the evil that Haman had planned against the Jews. The king extended his golden sceptre to Esther, and she rose and stood before the king. Esther said, ‘If it pleases you, and if I have found favour, let an order be sent rescinding the letters that Haman wrote and sent to destroy the Jews in your kingdom.

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