Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha LXX
New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha NRSA
1 So the king and Aman went in to drink with the queen.
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So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther.
2 And the king said to Esther at the banquet on the second day, What is it, queen Esther? and what thy request, and what thy petition? and it shall be for thee, to the half of my kingdom.
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On the second day, as they were drinking wine, the king again said to Esther, "What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled."
3 And she answered and said, If I have found favour in the sight of the king, let life be granted to my petition, and my people to my request.
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Then Queen Esther answered, "If I have won your favor, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me—that is my petition—and the lives of my people—that is my request.
4 For both I and my people are sold for destruction, and pillage, and slavery; we and our children for bondmen and bondwomen: and I consented not to it, for the not worthy of the king's palace.
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For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have held my peace; but no enemy can compensate for this damage to the king."
5 And the king said, Who this that has dared to do this thing?
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Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, "Who is he, and where is he, who has presumed to do this?"
6 And Esther said, the adversary Aman, this wicked man. Then Aman was troubled before the king and the queen.
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Esther said, "A foe and enemy, this wicked Haman!" Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.
7 And the king rose up from the banquet to go into the garden: and Aman began to intreat the queen; for he saw that he was in an evil case.
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The king rose from the feast in wrath and went into the palace garden, but Haman stayed to beg his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that the king had determined to destroy him.
8 And the king returned from the garden; and Aman had fallen upon the bed, intreating the queen. And the king said, Wilt thou even force wife in my house? And when Aman heard it, he changed countenance.
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When the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman had thrown himself on the couch where Esther was reclining; and the king said, "Will he even assault the queen in my presence, in my own house?" As the words left the mouth of the king, they covered Haman's face.
9 And Bugathan, one of the chamberlains, said to the king, Behold, Aman has also prepared a gallows for Mardochaeus, who spoke concerning the king, and a gallows of fifty cubits high has been set up in the premises of Aman. And the king said, Let him be hanged thereon.
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Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, said, "Look, the very gallows that Haman has prepared for Mordecai, whose word saved the king, stands at Haman's house, fifty cubits high." And the king said, "Hang him on that."
10 So Aman was hanged on the gallows that had been prepared for Mardochaeus: and then the king's wrath was appeased.
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So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the anger of the king abated.
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