^8 (A)if I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my request and do ^[a]what I wish, may the king and Haman come to ^(B)the banquet which I will prepare for them, and tomorrow I will do ^[b]as the king says.”

⁵ Then she said, “^(A)If it pleases the king and if I have found favor before him, and the matter seems proper to the king and I am pleasing in his sight, let it be written to revoke the ^(B)letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to eliminate the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces.