Esther 8:3-5

Lexham English Bible

³ And 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. ⁴ And the king held out to Esther the scepter of gold, and Esther rose and stood before the king, ⁵ and 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.