Esther 7:3-6

LEB(i) 3 Then Queen Esther answered, and she said, "If I have found favor in your eyes,* O king, and if it is good to the king, let my life be given to me at my petition and my people at my request; 4 I and my people have been sold to be destroyed and killed, to be annihilated. If we had been sold as male and female slaves I would have kept quiet, because this* is not a need sufficient to trouble the king."* 5 And King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, "Who is he, and where is he, who gave himself the right to do this?"* 6 And Esther said, "The adversary and enemy is this evil Haman!" And Haman was terrified before the king and queen.