Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Esther 8:6
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For how could I bear to see the disaster that would befall my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”
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For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
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For how can I endure to see the evil that would come to my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?”
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for how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
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Esther 8
4 The king extended the gold scepter toward Esther, and she arose and stood before the king.
5 “If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.
6 For how could I bear to see the disaster that would befall my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”
7 So King Xerxes said to Esther the Queen and Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Haman’s estate to Esther, and he was hanged on the gallows because he attacked the Jews.
8 Now you may write in the king’s name as you please regarding the Jews, and seal it with the royal signet ring. For a decree that is written in the name of the king and sealed with the royal signet ring cannot be revoked.”
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