Esther 7:3-4

3Then Queen Esther replied, “1If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me as my request, and my people as my wish;

4for 2we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, 3killed, and eliminated. Now if we had only been sold as slaves, men and women, I would have kept silent, because the distress would not be sufficient reason to burden the king.”