Esther 7:4

For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservants and maidservants, I would have remained silent, because no such distress would justify burdening the king.”
BSB · Berean Standard Bible
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.

Note to be destroyed…: Heb. that they should destroy, and kill, and cause to perish

KJV · King James Version
For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”
WEB · World English Bible
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 · American Standard Version

Related passages

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.

we are sold
Esther 3:9; Esther 4:7, 8; Deuteronomy 28:68; 1 Samuel 22:23
Esther 7:4
to be destroyed, etc. Heb. that they should destroy, andkill, and cause to perish.
Esther 3:13; Esther 8:11; Psalm 44:22, 23
But if we
Genesis 37:26–28; Deuteronomy 28:68; Joshua 9:23; Nehemiah 5:5; Joel 3:6; Amos 2:6
the enemy
Esther 7:6; Esther 3:9