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Esther answered, “Your Majesty, if you really care for me and are willing to help, you can save me and my people. That's what I really want, because a reward has been promised to anyone who kills my people. Your Majesty, if we were merely going to be sold as slaves, I would not have bothered you.”[a]

“Who would dare to do such a thing?” the king asked.

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  1. 7.4 I would … bothered you: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

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