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7:1. So the king and Aman went in, to drink with the queen.
7:2. And the king said to her again the second day, after he was warm
with wine: What is thy petition, Esther, that it may be granted thee?
and what wilt thou have done: although thou ask the half of my kingdom,
thou shalt have it.
7:3. Then she answered: If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and
if it please thee, give me my life for which I ask, and my people for
which I request.
7:4. For we are given up, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain,
and to perish. And would God we were sold for bondmen and bondwomen: the
evil might be borne with, and I would have mourned in silence: but now
we have an enemy, whose cruelty redoundeth upon the king.
7:5. And king Assuerus answered and said: Who is this, and of what
power, that he should do these things?
7:6. And Esther said: It is this Aman that is our adversary and most
wicked enemy. Aman hearing this was forthwith astonished, not being able
to bear the countenance of the king and of the queen.
7:7. But the king being angry rose up, and went from the place of the
banquet into the garden set with trees. Aman also rose up to entreat
Esther the queen for his life, for he understood that evil was prepared
for him by the king.
7:8. And when the king came back out of the garden set with trees, and
entered into the place of the banquet, he found Aman was fallen upon the
bed on which Esther lay, and he said: He will force the queen also in my
presence, in my own house. The word was not yet gone out of the king's
mouth, and immediately they covered his face.
7:9. And Harbona, one of the eunuchs that stood waiting on the king,
said: Behold the gibbet which he hath prepared for Mardochai, who spoke
for the king, standeth in Aman's house, being fifty cubits high. And the
king said to him: Hang him upon it.
7:10. So Aman was hanged on the gibbet, which he had prepared for
Mardochai: and the king's wrath ceased.
Esther Chapter 8
Mardochai is advanced: Aman's letters are reversed.
8:1. On that day king Assuerus gave the house of Aman, the Jews' enemy,
to queen Esther, and Mardochai came in before the king. For Esther had
confessed to him that he was her uncle.
8:2. And the king took the ring which he had commanded to be taken again
from Aman, and gave it to Mardochai. And Esther set Mardochai over her
house.
8:3. And not content with these things, she fell down at the king's feet
and wept, and speaking to him besought him, that he would give orders
that the malice of Aman the Agagite, and his most wicked devices which
he had invented against the Jews, should be of no effect.
8:4. But he, as the manner was, held out the golden sceptre with his
hand, which was the sign of clemency: and she arose up and stood before
him,
8:5. And said: If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his
sight, and my request be not disagreeable to him, I beseech thee, that
the former letters of Aman the traitor and enemy of the Jews, by which
he commanded that they should be destroyed in all the king's provinces,
may be reversed by new letters.
8:6. For how can I endure the murdering and slaughter of my people?
8:7. And king Assuerus answered Esther the queen, and Mardochai the Jew:
I have given Aman's house to Esther, and I have commanded him to be
hanged on a gibbet, because he durst lay hands on the Jews.
8:8. Write ye therefore to the Jews, as it pleaseth you in the king's
name, and seal the letters with my ring. For this was the custom, that
no man durst gainsay the letters which were sent in the king's name, and
were sealed with his ring.
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