Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor with you, Your Majesty, and if the king is pleased,(A) spare my life; this is my request. And spare my people; this is my desire.(B) For my people and I have been sold(C) to destruction, death, and annihilation.(D) If we had merely been sold as male and female slaves,(E) I would have kept silent. Indeed, the trouble wouldn’t be worth burdening the king.”

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Esther answered, “The adversary and enemy(A) is this evil Haman.”

Haman stood terrified(B) before the king and queen.

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