 1 The king and Haman came to the banquet of Queen Esther. 2 The king said again to Esther on the second day of the banquet of wine, What is your petition, queen Esther, that it may be granted you? What is your request and it will be performed, even to the half of the kingdom. 3 Queen Esther said, If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition and my people at my request. 4 For we are sold, my people and I, to be destroyed, to be killed and to perish. But if we had been sold for men slaves and women slaves, I would have held my tongue, although the enemy could not make up for the king's damage. 5 King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, Who is he, and where is the one who dares presume in his heart to do so? 6 Esther said, The man who is our adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. And Haman was afraid before the king and the queen. 7 The king, arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath, went into the palace garden. And Haman stood up to beg for his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that evil was determined against him by the king. 8 The king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine. And Haman had fallen on the bed on that Esther was. And the king said, Will he also force the queen before me in the house? As the word left the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face. 9 Harbonah, one of the eunuchs, said before the king, Look. The wooden gallows 50 cubits high that Haman made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, stands in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him on it. 10 They hanged Haman on the wooden gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. And the king's wrath lay down.
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