Est 7:4 | HCSB | STEP | For my people and I have been sold out to destruction , death , and extermination . If we had merely been sold as male and female slaves , I would have kept silent . Indeed , the trouble wouldn’t be worth burdening the king .”

Esther 7:4

4 For my people and I have been sold out ^a to destruction, death, and extermination. ^b If we had merely been sold as male and female slaves, ^c I would have kept silent. Indeed, the trouble wouldn’t be worth burdening the king.”