For my people and I have been sold(A) to destruction, death, and annihilation.(B) If we had merely been sold as male and female slaves,(C) I would have kept silent. Indeed, the trouble wouldn’t be worth burdening the king.”

King Ahasuerus spoke up and asked Queen Esther, “Who is this, and where is the one who would devise such a scheme?” [a](D)

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

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

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Footnotes

  1. 7:5 Lit who would fill his heart to do this

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