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The king held out his golden scepter to Esther, and Esther got up and stood in front of the king. She said, “Your Majesty, if it pleases you, and if I have found favor with you, if you consider my cause to be reasonable and if I am pleasing to you, cancel the official orders concerning the plot of Haman (who was the son of Hammedatha and was from Agag). He signed the order to destroy the Jews in all your provinces, Your Majesty. I cannot bear to see my people suffer such evil. And I simply cannot bear to see the destruction of my relatives.”

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