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.