Greek Esther 7:3-5

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³ She answered and said, ‘If I have found favour with the king, let my life be granted me at my petition, and my people at my request. ⁴ For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, plundered, and made slaves—we and our children—male and female slaves. This has come to my knowledge. Our antagonist brings shame on^[a] the king’s court.’ ⁵ Then the king said, ‘Who is the person that would dare to do this thing?’