Esther 7:3-6 Esther the queen, answered: »If I have your approval, O king, and if it is the king's pleasure, let my life be given to me in answer to my petition. My people at my request:

NSB⁽ⁱ⁾ ³ Esther the queen, answered: »If I have your approval, O king, and if it is the king's pleasure, let my life be given to me in answer to my petition. My people at my request: ⁴ »For my people and I have been sold for slaughter and destruction. If we had been taken as men-servants and women-servants for a price, I would have said nothing, for our trouble is little in comparison with the king's loss.« ⁵ Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen: »Who is he and where is he who has had this evil thought in his heart?« ⁶ Esther said: »Our hater and attacker is this evil Haman.« Then Haman was full of fear before the king and the queen.