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  • Esther 8:5
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 5 She said: “If it pleases the king and if I have his favor, and if it seems proper to the king and I am pleasing in his eyes, let an order be written to annul the documents of that schemer Haʹman+ the son of Ham·me·daʹtha the Agʹag·ite,+ which he wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.*

  • Esther 8:5
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 5 She now said: “If to the king it does seem good, and if I have found favor+ before him and the thing is proper before the king and I am good in his eyes, let it be written to undo the written documents,+ the scheme of Haʹman the son of Ham·me·daʹtha the Agʹag·ite,+ which he wrote to destroy the Jews+ that are in all the king’s jurisdictional districts.+

  • Esther 8:5
    The Bible in Living English
    • 5 and said “If the king thinks best and if I am in favor with him, and the proposal seems to the king to be advantageous and the king likes me, let something be written to reverse the writs contrived by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite which he indited to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces;

  • Esther 8:5
    American Standard Version
    • 5 And she said, If it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews that are in all the king’s provinces:

  • Esther 8:5
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 5 and said—If unto the king it seem good and if I have found favour before him and the thing be approved before the king, and I myself be pleasing in his eyes let it be written to reverse the letters plotted by Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews, who are in all the provinces of the king.

  • Esther 8:5
    King James Version
    • 5 And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king’s provinces:

  • Esther
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2025
    • 8:5 w06 3/1 11; w86 3/15 25

  • Esther
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 8:5 pr32 149; w31 228

  • Esther
    Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
    • 8:5

      The Watchtower,

      3/1/2006, p. 11

      3/15/1986, p. 25

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