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Esther 5:3

5:3 The king said to her, “What is on your mind,¹ Queen Esther? What is your request? Even as much as half the kingdom will be given to you!”

Esther 5:6

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5:6 While at the banquet of wine, the king said to Esther, “What is your request? It shall be given to you. What is your petition? Ask for as much as half the kingdom,² and it shall be done!”

¹tn Heb “What to you?”; NAB, NIV NRSV “What is it, Queen Esther?”

²sn As much as half the kingdom. Such a statement would no doubt have been understood for the exaggeration that it clearly was. Cf. the similar NT scene recorded in Mark 6:23, where Herod makes a similar promise to the daughter of Herodias. In that case the request was for the head of John the Baptist, which is a lot less than half the kingdom.

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