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1 And the king came in, and Haman, to drink with Esther the queen. 2 And the king said to Esther also on the second day at the feast of the wine, “What is your petition, Esther the queen? And it shall be given to you. And what is your request? As much as half of the kingdom, and it shall be done.” 3 And Esther the queen answered and said, “If I have found favor in your eyes, O king, and if upon the king it is good, let my soul be given to me at my petition, and my people at my request; 4 for we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be exterminated. And if for menservants and for maidservants we had been sold, I would have kept silent, for the adversary is not equal in the damage of the king.” 5 And King Ahasuerus spoke and he said to Esther the queen, “Who is he, this one? And where is this one—he who has filled his heart to do thus?” 6 And Esther said, “A man, an adversary, and enemy is this, the evil Haman.” And Haman was terrified from before the faces of the king and the queen. 7 And the king arose in his anger from the feast of the wine to the garden of the palace, and Haman stood to beg for his soul from Esther the queen, for he saw that the evil was determined against him from the king. Esther 7:1-7, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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