if I: Esther 7:3; Exodus 33:13, Exodus 33:16; 1 Samuel 20:29
I be pleasing: Esther 2:4, Esther 2:17
letters: Heb. device, Esther 3:12-13
which he wrote: or, who wrote
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Esther 8:5
Esther 8:5
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