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2 On the second day the king again told Esther as they drank wine, |What's your petition, Queen Esther? It will be given to you. What's your request? Up to half of the kingdom, and it will be done.| 3 Queen Esther answered: |If I've found favor with you, your majesty, and if it seems good to the king, let my life be given to me as my petition and my people as my request. 4 Indeed, I and my people have been sold to be annihilated, killed, and destroyed. If we had just been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept quiet, because the trouble wouldn't have been sufficient to bother the king.| Esther 7:2-4, Intl. Standard Version. Copyright © 1995-2014 by ISV Foundation.
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