Mordecai

I knew Ahasuerus was a brute,

But what of that? Through Esther I have saved

A half a million souls.

Zeresh

[Aside.]

Through Esther you

Have slain a million souls.

Mordecai

When Jepthah vowed

A vow unto the Lord he kept his pledge

And slew the only daughter of his flesh

For a burnt offering unto God, because

The Ammonites, his enemy, had been

Delivered to the hands of Israel.

Now Esther was my only child.

[54]

Zeresh

[A little sarcastically.]

You have

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