Catholic Public Domain Version
"But he, as was the custom, extended the golden scepter with his hand, which was the sign of clemency, and she rose up and stood before him. "
— Esther 8:4, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Then the king held out the golden sceptre toward Esther. So Esther arose, and stood before the king,”
“Then the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre. So Esther arose, and stood before the king. ”
“Then the king held out to Esther the golden scepter. So Esther arose, and stood before the king.”
“When the king extended to Esther the gold scepter, she arose and stood before the king.”
“But he, as the manner was, held out the golden sceptre with his hand, which was the sign of clemency: and she arose up and stood before him,”
“Then the king put out the rod of gold to Esther, and she got up before the king.”
“Then the king held out the golden sceptre toward Esther. So Esther arose, and stood before the king,”
On that day king, Artaxerxes gave the house of Haman, the adversary of the Jews, to queen Esther, and Mordecai entered before the king. For Esther had confessed to him that he was her paternal uncle.
And the king took the ring, which he had ordered to be taken from Haman, and he handed it to Mordecai. And Esther appointed Mordecai over her house.
Not content with these things, she threw herself down at the king’s feet and wept, and, speaking to him, pleaded that he would give orders that the malice of Haman the Agagite, and his most wicked schemes, which he had contrived against the Jews, would be made ineffective.
But he, as was the custom, extended the golden scepter with his hand, which was the sign of clemency, and she rose up and stood before him.
And she said, “If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his eyes, and my request is not seen to be disagreeable to him, I beg you that the former letters of Haman, the traitor and enemy of the Jews, by which he instructed them to be destroyed in all the king’s provinces, may be corrected by new letters.
For how will I be able to endure the murder and execution of my people?”
And king Artaxerxes answered Esther the queen and Mordecai the Jew, “I have granted Haman’s house to Esther, and I have ordered him to be fastened to a cross, because he dared to lay hands on the Jews.