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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[a] is not a need sufficient to trouble the king.”[b] And King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who gave himself the right to do this?”[c] And Esther said, “The adversary and enemy is this evil Haman!” And Haman was terrified before the king and queen.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 7:4 Hebrew “there”
  2. Esther 7:4 See HALOT 1437, s.v. NRSV translates, “but no enemy can compensate for this damage to the king”
  3. Esther 7:5 Literally “has filled his heart to do so”