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The king held out the gold scepter to her, so she stood up
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and said, "If it please Your Majesty and if you care about me, please issue a proclamation to keep Haman's orders from being carried out - those orders he gave for the destruction of all the Jews in the empire.
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How can I endure it if this disaster comes on my people? How can I go on living if my whole nation is destroyed?"
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Then the king said to Esther, "I have hanged Haman for his plot against the Jews, and I have given you his property. If that is not enough,
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you may write to the Jews whatever you like; and you may write it in my name and stamp it with the royal seal, for a proclamation issued in the king's name and stamped with the royal seal cannot be revoked."
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.