ESTER 7:4

thi jeg og mit Folk er solgt til at udryddes, ihjelslås og tilintetgøres. Var vi endda solgt som Trælle og Trælkvinder, vilde jeg have tiet, thi så havde Ulykken ikke været stor nok til at ulejlige Kongen med!”

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.