- 當日亞哈隨魯王把猶大人仇敵哈曼的家產賜給王后以斯帖。末底改也來到王面前、因為以斯帖已經告訴王末底改是他的親屬。
- 王摘下自己的戒指、就是從哈曼追回的、給了末底改.以斯帖派末底改管理哈曼的家產。
- 以斯帖又俯伏在王腳前、流淚哀告、求他除掉亞甲族哈曼害猶大人的惡謀。
- 王向以斯帖伸出金杖.以斯帖就起來、站在王前、
- 說、亞甲族哈米大他的兒子哈曼、設謀傳旨、要殺滅在王各省的猶大人.現今王若願意、我若在王眼前蒙恩、王若以為美、若喜悅我、請王另下旨意廢除哈曼所傳的那旨意。
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- That same day King Xerxes gave Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came into the presence of the king, for Esther had told how he was related to her.
- The king took off his signet ring, which he had reclaimed from Haman, and presented it to Mordecai. And Esther appointed him over Haman's estate.
- Esther again pleaded with the king, falling at his feet and weeping. She begged him to put an end to the evil plan of Haman the Agagite, which he had devised against the Jews.
- Then the king extended the gold scepter to Esther and she arose and stood before him.
- "If it pleases the king," she said, "and if he regards me with favor and thinks it the right thing to do, and if he is pleased with me, let an order be written overruling the dispatches that Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, devised and wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king's provinces.
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