- 王帶著哈曼來赴王后以斯帖的筵席.
- 這第二次在酒席筵前、王又問以斯帖說、王后以斯帖阿、你要甚麼、我必賜給你、你求甚麼、就是國的一半、也必為你成就。
- 王后以斯帖回答說、我若在王眼前蒙恩、王若以為美、我所願的、是願王將我的性命賜給我、我所求的、是求王將我的本族賜給我.
- 因我和我的本族被賣了、要剪除殺戮滅絕我們.我們若被賣為奴為婢、我也閉口不言、但王的損失、敵人萬不能補足。
- 亞哈隨魯王問王后以斯帖說、擅敢起意如此行的是誰、這人在哪裡呢。
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- Now the king and Haman came to drink wine with Esther the queen.
- And the king said to Esther on the second day also as they drank their wine at the banquet, "What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you And what is your request? Even to half of the kingdom it shall be done."
- Then Queen Esther replied, "If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me as my petition, and my people as my request;
- for we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed and to be annihilated. Now if we had only been sold as slaves, men and women, I would have remained silent, for the trouble would not be commensurate with the annoyance to the king."
- Then King Ahasuerus asked Queen Esther, "Who is he, and where is he, who would presume to do thus?"
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