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Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and begged him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.
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Then the king held out to Esther the golden scepter. So Esther arose, and stood before the king.
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She said, If it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king`s provinces:
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for how can I endure to see the evil that shall come to my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?