³ Then Queen Esther answered and said, “^(A)If I have found favor in your eyes, O king, and if it seems good to the king, let my life be given to me as ^[a]my petition, and my people as ^[b]my request;

⁵ Then she said, “^(A)If it seems good to the king, and if I have found favor before him and the matter seems proper to the king and I am good in his eyes, let it be written to turn back the ^(B)letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to cause the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces to perish.