Esther 7:3-5

Lexham English Bible

³ Then Queen Esther answered, and she said, “If I have found favor in your eyes,^[a] O king, and if it is good to the king, let my life be given to me at my petition and my people at my request; ⁴ I and my people have been sold to be destroyed and killed, to be annihilated. If we had been sold as male and female slaves I would have kept quiet, because this^[b] is not a need sufficient to trouble the king.”^{[c] 5} And King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who gave himself the right to do this?”^[d]