Esther 8:3-5

New American Standard Bible 1995

³ Then Esther spoke again to the king, fell at his feet, wept and implored him to avert the evil scheme of Haman the Agagite and his plot which he had devised against the Jews. ^4 (A)The king extended the golden scepter to Esther. So Esther arose and stood before the king. ⁵ Then she said, “^(B)If it pleases the king and if I have found favor before him and the matter seems proper to the king and I am pleasing in his sight, let it be written to revoke the ^(C)letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces.