And Esther the queen answered, and said, If I have found favor in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request.

For we are sold, I, and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish: but if we were sold for servants, and for handmaids, I would have held my tongue, although the adversary could not [a]recompense the king’s loss.

Then king Ahasuerus answered, and said unto the queen Esther, Who is he? and where is he that [b]presumeth to do thus?

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 7:4 Haman could not so much profit the king by this his malice, as he should hinder him by the loss of the Jews, and the tribute which he hath of them.
  2. Esther 7:5 Hebrew, filleth his heart.

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