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3 Queen Esther replied: “If I have found favor with you, O king, and if it pleases your majesty, I ask that my life be spared, and I beg that you spare the lives of my people. 4 For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, killed, and annihilated. If we were only to be sold into slavery I would remain silent, for then our distress would not have been worth troubling the king.” 5 King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, “Who and where is the man who has dared to do this?” 6 Esther replied, “The enemy oppressing us is this wicked Haman.” At this, Haman was seized with dread of the king and queen. Esther 7:3-6, New American Bible Revised. Copyright © 2010 USCCB.
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