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
Read in Esther 7Meaning
Her language deliberately echoes the decree and makes its stakes unmistakable. Esther adds that mere enslavement would not have justified troubling the king in the same way; the issue before him is extermination.