Esther 7:3-5

Good News Translation

³ Queen Esther answered, “If it please Your Majesty to grant my humble request, my wish is that I may live and that my people may live. ⁴ My people and I have been sold for slaughter. If it were nothing more serious than being sold into slavery, I would have kept quiet and not bothered you about it;^[a] but we are about to be destroyed—exterminated!”

⁵ Then King Xerxes asked Queen Esther, “Who dares to do such a thing? Where is this man?”