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3 Queen Esther answered and said:If I have found favor in your eyes, O king, and if it seems good to the king, may my own soul be granted to me at my request, and my people's at my urgent appeal.
4 For we have been sold, I and my people, to be exterminated, to be killed and to be destroyed. Now supposing we had been sold as male slaves and as maids, I would have kept silence, for it would not be appropriate to report such a distress, and cause trouble to the king.
5 Then king Xerxes inquired; he asked queen Esther:Who, then, is he? And just where is he who has filled his heart to act in this way?
6 Esther replied:The man, the foe and enemy, is this evil Haman. Haman was frightened before the king and the queen.
7 When the king, in his fury, arose from the wine feast to go into the garden of the pavilion, Haman stayed behind to appeal earnestly for his soul from queen Esther, for he saw that there was evil determined against him from the king.
8 As the king was returning from the garden of the pavilion to the house of the wine feast, Haman was falling upon the couch on which Esther was. So the king shouted:Will he even molest the queen, with me in the house? As the word had come forth from the king's mouth, they hooded Haman's face.
9 And Harbona, one of the eunuchs before the king, said:Moreover, behold, there is standing at Haman's house the lofty gallows of fifty cubits that Haman had prepared for Mordecai who had spoken to the good of the king. So the king commanded:Hang him on it!"
10 Then they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. And the king's fury subsided.