Ester

  • Esther Intervenes for the Jews

  • |Ester 8:1| That same day King Ahasuerus awarded Queen Esther the estate a of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. b Mordecai entered the king’s presence because Esther had revealed her relationship to Mordecai. c

  • |Ester 8:2| The king removed his signet ring he had recovered from Haman d and gave it to Mordecai, and Esther put him in charge of Haman’s estate.

  • |Ester 8:3| Then Esther addressed the king again. e She fell at his feet, wept, and begged f him to revoke the evil of Haman the Agagite, g and his plot he had devised against the Jews. h

  • |Ester 8:4| The king extended the gold scepter i toward Esther, so she got up and stood before the king.

  • |Ester 8:5| She said, “If it pleases the king, and I have found approval before him, if the matter seems right to the king and I am pleasing in his sight, j let a royal edict be written. Let it revoke the documents the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces. k

  • |Ester 8:6| For how could I bear to see the disaster that would come on my people? l How could I bear to see the destruction of my relatives?” m

  • |Ester 8:7| King Ahasuerus said to Esther the Queen and to Mordecai the Jew, “Look, I have given Haman’s estate to Esther, n and he was hanged on the gallows because he attacked 1 the Jews. o

  • |Ester 8:8| You may write in the king’s name whatever pleases you p concerning the Jews, and seal it with the royal signet ring. q A document written in the king’s name and sealed with the royal signet ring cannot be revoked.” r

  • |Ester 8:9| On the twenty-third day of the third month s (that is, the month Sivan), 2 the royal scribes were summoned. Everything was written exactly as Mordecai t ordered for the Jews, to the satraps, u the governors, and the officials of the 127 provinces from India 3 to Cush. v The edict was written for each province in its own script, for each ethnic group in its own language, w and to the Jews in their own script and language.

  • |Ester 8:10| Mordecai wrote in King Ahasuerus’s name and sealed the edicts with the royal signet ring. He sent the documents by mounted couriers, x who rode fast horses y bred from the royal racing mares.


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