Additions to Esther 8:6

6 For how can I bear to see the calamity that is coming on my people? Or how can I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?"

Additions to Esther 8:6 In-Context

4 The king held out the golden scepter to Esther,

5 and Esther rose and stood before the king. Shesaid, "If it pleases the king, and if I have won his favor, and if the thing seems right before the king, and I have his approval, let an order be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote giving orders to destroy the Jews who are in all the provinces of the king.

6 For how can I bear to see the calamity that is coming on my people? Or how can I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?"

7 Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to the Jew Mordecai, "See, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows, because he plotted to lay hands on the Jews.

8 You may write as you please with regard to the Jews, in the name of the king, and seal it with the king's ring; for an edict written in the name of the king and sealed with the king's ring cannot be revoked."