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Esther

ESV

Chapter 8

¹On that day King Ahasuerus gave to Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he was to her. ²And the king took off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman. ³Then Esther spoke again to the king. She fell at his feet and wept and pleaded with him to avert the evil plan of Haman the Agagite and the plot that he had devised against the Jews. ⁴When the king held out the golden scepter to Esther, Esther rose and stood before the king. ⁵And she said, “If it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and if the thing seems right before the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let an order be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces. ⁶For how can I endure to see the evil that would overwhelm my people? Or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?” ⁷Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged on the gallows, because he intended to lay hands on the Jews. ⁸But you may write as you please with regard to the Jews, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s signet ring, for an edict written in the name of the king and sealed with the king’s signet ring cannot be revoked.” ⁹The king’s scribes were summoned at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty-third day. And an edict was written, according to all that Mordecai commanded concerning the Jews, to the satraps and the governors and the officials of the provinces from India to Ethiopia, 127 provinces, to each province in its own script and to each people in its own language, and also to the Jews in their script and their language. ¹⁰He wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed it with the king’s signet ring, and sent the letters by mounted couriers riding on swift horses that were used in the king’s service, bred from the royal stud, ¹¹saying that the king allowed the Jews who were in every city to gather and defend their lives, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate any armed force of any people or province that might attack them, children and women included, and to plunder their goods, ¹²on one day throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar. ¹³A copy of the document was to be issued as a decree in every province, being publicly displayed to all peoples, and the Jews were to be ready on that day to take vengeance on their enemies. ¹⁴So the couriers, mounted on their swift horses, went out, spurred on by the king’s command. And the decree was issued in Susa the citadel. ¹⁵Then Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal robes of blue and white, with a great golden crown and a cloak of fine linen and purple, and the city of Susa shouted and was glad. ¹⁶The Jews had light and gladness and joy and honor. ¹⁷And in every province and in every city, wherever the king’s command and his edict came, there was gladness and joy among the Jews, a feast and a holiday. And many of the people of the country declared themselves Jews, for fear of the Jews had fallen on them.