Ester had not yet made known her relatives nor her people, as Mordekhai had charged her; for Ester obeyed Mordekhai, like she did when she was brought up by him.
He brought up Hadassah, that is, Ester, his uncle's daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordekhai took her for his own daughter.
Haman said to King Achashverosh, *There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different than other people's. They don's keep they the king's laws. Therefore it is not for the king's profit to allow them.
For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondservants and bondmaids, I would have held my shalom, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king's loss.*