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Esther 7:2-4
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2 And the king again said to Esther, on the second day while they were drinking,[a] “What is your petition, Queen Esther? It will be given to you. What is your request? It will be given to you—even half the kingdom.” 3 Then Queen Esther answered, and she said, “If I have found favor in your eyes,[b] 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[c] is not a need sufficient to trouble the king.”[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 7:2 Literally “at the meal of wine”
  2. Esther 7:3 Or “If I have won your favor”
  3. Esther 7:4 Hebrew “there”
  4. Esther 7:4 See HALOT 1437, s.v. NRSV translates, “but no enemy can compensate for this damage to the king”
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