Esther 7:3-5

International Children’s Bible

³ Then Queen Esther answered, “My king, I hope you are pleased with me. If it pleases you, let me live. This is what I ask. And let my people live, too. This is what I want. ⁴ I ask this because my people and I have been sold to be destroyed. We are to be killed and completely wiped out. If we had been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept quiet. That would not be enough of a problem to bother the king.”

⁵ Then King Xerxes asked Queen Esther, “Who is he? Where is he? Who has done such a thing?”