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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."
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On the twenty-third day of the first month, the month of Nisan, the king's secretaries were called and letters were written to the Jews and to the governors and administrators of all 127 provinces from India to Ethiopia. The letters were written to each province in its own language.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.