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2 The king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, |What is your petition, queen Esther? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.| 3 Then Esther the queen answered, |If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request. 4 For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondservants and bondmaids, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king's loss.| Esther 7:2-4, New Heart English Bible. Public domain.
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