2 The king now said to Esther also on the second day during the banquet of wine:+ “What is your petition,+ O Esther the queen? Let it even be given to you.+ And what is your request? To the half of the kingship+—let it even be done!”

12 And the king proceeded to say to Esther the queen:+ “In Shuʹshan the castle+ the Jews have killed, and there has been a destroying* of five hundred men and the ten sons of Haʹman. In the rest of the jurisdictional districts+ of the king what have they done?+ And what is your petition? Let it even be given to you.+ And what is your further request?+ Let it even be done.”