³ Queen Esther answered, “If I have obtained your approval,^[a] my king, and if the king is pleased,^(A) spare my life—this is my request; and spare my people—this is my desire.^(B)

⁵ She said, “If it pleases the king, and I have found approval before him, if the matter seems right to the king and I am pleasing in his sight,^(A) 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.^(B)