For both I and my people are sold for destruction, and pillage, and slavery; [both] we and our children for bondmen and bondwomen: and I consented not to it, for the slanderer [is] not worthy of the king's palace.
LXX2012
Esther 7:4
For both I and my people are sold for destruction, and pillage, and slavery; [both] we and our children for bondmen and bondwomen: and I consented not to it, for the [is] not worthy of the king's palace.
Parallel Translations
For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king’s damage.
For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”
Cross References
Esther 3:9Deuteronomy 28:68Esther 3:13Esther 8:11Esther 4:7–8Amos 2:6Joshua 9:23Nehemiah 5:5Psalms 44:22–23Esther 7:61 Samuel 22:23Genesis 37:26–28Joel 3:6
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