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Esther 7:3-5
Lexham English Bible
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]
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- Esther 7:3 Or “If I have won your favor”
- Esther 7:4 Hebrew “there”
- Esther 7:4 See HALOT 1437, s.v. NRSV translates, “but no enemy can compensate for this damage to the king”
- Esther 7:5 Literally “has filled his heart to do so”
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