and during every day Mordecai is walking up and down before the court of the house of the women to know the welfare of Esther, and what is done with her.

And the king saith to Esther, during the banquet of wine, 'What is thy petition? and it is given to thee; and what thy request? unto the half of the kingdom -- and it is done.'

and all this is not profitable to me, during all the time that I am seeing Mordecai the Jew sitting in the gate of the king.'

and the king saith to Esther also on the second day, during the banquet of wine, 'What is thy petition, Esther, O queen? and it is given to thee; and what thy request? unto the half of the kingdom -- and it is done.'