⁵ and she said, “If it is good to the king, and if I have found favor before him,^[a] and if the king is pleased with this matter, and I have his approval,^[b] let an edict be written to revoke the letters of the plans of Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews that are in all the provinces of the king. ⁶ For how can I bear^[c] to look on the disaster that will find my people, and how can I bear^[d] to look on the destruction of my family?” ⁷ And King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Look, I have given Haman’s house to Esther, and they have hanged him on the gallows because he plotted against^[e] the Jews.