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The introductory formula are in part similar to those used Est 1:19; Est 5:4, Est 5:8; Est 7:3; but the petition referring to a great and important matter, they are strengthened by two new phrases: “If the thing is advisable (כָּשֵ×ר, proper, convenient, advantageous, a later word occurring again only Ecc 11:6; Ecc 10:10, - in Ecc 2:21; Ecc 4:4-5, Ecc 4:10 of the same book, כִּשְ×רֹון) before the king, and if I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written (let a writing be used, like Est 3:9), to frustrate (לְהָשִ×יב, i.e., to put out of force) the letters, the device of Haman ... which he wrote to destroy the Jews, who are in all the provinces of the king.†הָמָן מַחֲשֶ×בֶת, the device, the proposal of Haman, is added to הַסְּפָרִי×, briefly to characterize the contents of the letters. On the matter itself, comp. Est 3:8. and Est 3:12. “For how shall I endure to see the destruction of my people?†The verbs וְרִ×ִיתִי ×וּכַל are so combined that the second is governed by the first, וְרִ×ִיתִי standing instead of the infinitive; comp. Ew. §285, c. רָ×ָה cons. בְּ denotes an interested beholding, whether painful or joyous, of something; comp. Gen 44:34. מֹולֶרֶת in parallelism with ×Ö¸× denotes those who are of like descent, the family, members of a tribe.