Est 7:4 | ESV | STEP | For we have been sold , I and my people , to be destroyed , to be killed , and to be annihilated . If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women , I would have been silent , for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king .

‏ Esther 7:4

4 ^aFor we have been sold, I and my people, ^bto be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king.”