Esther 7:4
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.
KJV
Traditi enim sumus ego et populus meus, ut conteramur, jugulemur, et pereamus. Atque utinam in servos et famulas venderemur : esset tolerabile malum, et gemens tacerem : nunc autem hostis noster est, cujus crudelitas redundat in regem.
Vulgate
ἐπράθημεν γὰρ ἐγώ τε καὶ ὁ λαός μου εἰς ἀπωλίαν καὶ διαρπαγὴν καὶ δουλίαν, ἡμεῖς καὶ τὰ τέκνα ἡμῶν εἰς παῖδας καὶ παιδίσκας, καὶ παρήκουσα· οὐ γὰρ ἄξιος ὁ διάβολος τῆς αὐλῆς τοῦ βασιλέως.
LXX
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 peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s damage.
ASV
כִּ֤י נִמְכַּ֨רְנוּ֙ אֲנִ֣י וְ/עַמִּ֔/י לְ/הַשְׁמִ֖יד לַ/הֲר֣וֹג וּ/לְ/אַבֵּ֑ד וְ֠/אִלּוּ לַ/עֲבָדִ֨ים וְ/לִ/שְׁפָח֤וֹת נִמְכַּ֨רְנוּ֙ הֶחֱרַ֔שְׁתִּי כִּ֣י אֵ֥ין הַ/צָּ֛ר שֹׁוֶ֖ה בְּ/נֵ֥זֶק הַ/מֶּֽלֶךְ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
16 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Dan 6:2 — And over these three presidents; of whom Daniel was first: that the princes might give accounts unto them, and the king should have no damage.
- Deut 28:68 — And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen
- Deut 28:68 — And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen
- Eccl 3:7 — A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
- Esth 2:10 — Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it.
- Esth 3:9 — If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king
- Esth 3:13 — And the letters were sent by posts into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirte
- Esth 8:6 — For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
- Esth 8:11 — Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and prov