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Esther said, "If the idea seems right to the king, and if I still please him, revoke the written decrees sent out by Haman, ordering the destruction of the Jews living within your kingdom.
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How can I bear to watch the terrible evil about to sweep over my people? And how can I be delivered from the destruction of my people?"
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The king said to Esther, "I've given you everything Haman owned: I've favored you and impaled him on a pole because he planned to attack the Jews.
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Write to the Jews in the king's name whatever seems best to you and seal the letters with my royal ring. Anything written in the name of the king and sealed with the king's royal ring can't be revoked."
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So the royal scribes were summoned on the twenty-third day of the first month (that is, the month of Nisan). They wrote out Mordecai's orders regarding the Jews for the officials and governors of the provinces from India to Cush, one hundred twenty-seven in all. They wrote in the alphabet of each province and in the language of each people.