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Esther 7:3-5
New American Standard Bible 1995
Esther 7:3-5
New American Standard Bible 1995
3 Then Queen Esther replied, “(A)If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me as my petition, and my people as my request; 4 for (B)we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, (C)to be killed and to be annihilated. Now if we had only been sold as slaves, men and women, I would have remained silent, for the [a]trouble would not be commensurate with the [b]annoyance to the king.” 5 Then King Ahasuerus [c]asked Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, [d]who would presume to do thus?”
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- Esther 7:4 Or enemy could not compensate for the loss
- Esther 7:4 Or damage
- Esther 7:5 Lit said and said to
- Esther 7:5 Lit whose heart has been filled
New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB1995)
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